These are tame compared to some of the stuff I have been tasked with at a previous company. I don't want to go into specifics really, but I can tell you that it

These are tame compared to some of the stuff I have been tasked with at a previous company. I don't want to go into specifics really, but I can tell you that it sort of became normal. Should we test out defaulting the newsletter checkbox? Sure, oh great, it improved newsletter conversions! Should we show a fake "X amount of people viewed this product"? Sure, if it works we can actually implement it! Etc. etc. Until I was outside of the culture of the company for a bit, I didn't see any issue. Improvement of metrics was all that mattered.