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Discussion on: Have you ever had to take an ethical stand while on the job as a developer?

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Kane Ong • Edited

A lot of people reached me out for building them gambling-related apps, I rejected all of them, no matter how lucrative their offers are and how broke I am.

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Keff

I'd do the same thing, I hate those kinds of apps :(

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CamDHall • Edited

I got tricked into making one and the second the client asked to add in the gambling mechanic I dropped the contract. Though I didn't say I was dropping him because of the gambling I just said something to the effect of "I don't believe in the quality of the app you're expecting to launch".

Originally the app was supposed to be a solitaire game with ads. Eh, okay sure. Don't know why we need another one of those put you're paying so whatever. Then halfway through he wants me to implement some gambling sdk. Nope. And you want to sideload the app on Android because it violates the terms? Nooope.