As someone making his living in various forms of IT, knowledge of this kind of thing is difficult for me. I find it so disgusting that it's very hard to stomach

As someone making his living in various forms of IT, knowledge of this kind of thing is difficult for me. I find it so disgusting that it's very hard to stomach recommending technical solutions, or even investing in the equipment I need, when I know that it will aid in the prospering of these companies that will then use it for such ugly, immoral actions. The problem is you slowly learn of this kind of thing from every tech company and soon enough you're just disgusted with the whole IT career. Unless you are very lucky with your job options, you can't just retreat into some happy corner where you program in Lisp on Linux servers all day long. You have to get over it and put it at arms length or face the fact your career is going to be much less fruitful than it otherwise would be.