It’s born from the same idea that people will pass out Halloween candy with blades in it. Which is a thing that is everyone “knows” about but has never actually been reported to happen.

In the words of a friend who used to cheat (and now regrets it), it felt nice to actually be able to win at something when life tends to hand you so many losses.

That’s what PornHub does with IP addresses coming from Utah, Virginia, and Mississippi

const x = 0;

how do you take a screenshot with the specks on your monitor included?

i was literally reaching for a microfiber cloth

Unfortunately I think engineers, as employees of a company, don’t have a lot of power. You aren’t typically the one making feature decisions. You can always try to talk product people out of bad ideas, but at some point if you refuse to do what you’ve been told to, you lose your job. Some engineers are in a financial position to take that high road, but a lot aren’t. And then even if you do quit, there will always be someone else willing to do what you aren’t.

I think as long as there is money in doing unethical (but legal) things, those things will continue to happen