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For one story like this which emerges because the engineer refused, how many stories we will never heard about because it was simply done?

As software engineers, we are just like medical experts talking about the toxicity of cigarettes while ourselves buying cigarettes and distributing them to our own children.



> As software engineers, we are just like medical experts talking about the toxicity of cigarettes while ourselves buying cigarettes and distributing them to our own children.

It's even worse than that. Most of the people working in adtech are actually producing cigarettes, and laughing all the way to the bank. Many of them are on this very site.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0


AdTech (in it's current state at least) is morally indefensible




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