Is it really a bad idea? Is getting caught a bad outcome? Will this hurt their revenue at all? This is somewhat conspiratorial, but I think it's a deliberate e

Is it really a bad idea? Is getting caught a bad outcome? Will this hurt their revenue at all? This is somewhat conspiratorial, but I think it's a deliberate enshittification strategy. Do something that's currently considered beyond the pale, accept some temporary reputation damage, walk it back. Then quietly and gradually start working your way up to doing increasingly bad things, and people will be OK with that, because at least it's not the really bad thing you did that one time. Eventually, the thing that was once beyond the pale is now the normal.