[LegitShady]

I am not a person who normally moralizes to others, but I can say I have quit jobs where I found the work to be unethical or that company policies required me to bend my ethics.

The engineers implement all of the "features" that these management types decide on. I understand there are infinite engineers so eventually the features will get implemented, but I do not blame the managers alone for tasks done by unethical engineers who do not consider the effect of their work in the long run.

[adamc]

This. If you only shoot the crowds when your overlord demands it, that does not make you innocent.

[snarfy]

Yes because implementing a pop-up is akin to murder.

[adamc]

The moral issues are the same even when the gravity of the offense is different.

[ryandrake]

Same here. Ultimately, the engineer is the one typing in the code and hitting submit. They are at the very least complicit and need to at least share responsibility.

[snarfy]

That's privilege talking. Not everyone is in a position to quit their jobs over the morality of implementing a pop-up.