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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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Alex Lohr

I was tasked to write a fingerprinting engine for advertisement tracking. I refused to do that, first, because it was not ethical to do so and second, because browser vendors had just started reducing the abilities of the products to limit fingerprinting abilities and I didn't want to increase the reasons for reducing browser functionality.

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Yes! Thank you!