I mean relying on a massive corporation's total dominance over the web and semi-arbitrary rules for reward and punishment in order to tell the "business" side of your company no isn't exactly something I would be touting as a positive thing.
All of this crap is because sw engineers don't have a professional association with an ethics board. Can you imagine if you could put the experience of your users first and tell your business to fuck off when they ask for this nonsense secure that they really can't just fire you and find someone who will sell out.
I invite you to find any ethics board in the world that would speak out against "I made my company $10MM more yearly by causing the page to load 3 seconds slower for all of our users, with janky scrolling and popup ads". I mean, frankly, that's a very utilitarian calculation—think about just the simple case of a business saving money by removing their caching layer. Who is to say how many seconds of performance deoptimization is worth how many dollars of saved cost? If it only cost users 0.1 seconds in the median case and 1 seconds in the 95th percentile case, and you saved $1MM yearly, would you make that call?
All of this crap is because sw engineers don't have a professional association with an ethics board. Can you imagine if you could put the experience of your users first and tell your business to fuck off when they ask for this nonsense secure that they really can't just fire you and find someone who will sell out.