I'm equally hostile to corporations doing that. I don't recall the HN comment threats about Google doing the kind of things you describe being full of replies congratulating their ingenuity.
Big corporation doing bad thing is bad doesn't mean much smaller corporation doing bad thing is okay, it means we should work on preventing that bad thing and if we seemingly can't we should reconsider the underlying systemic conditions that enable it.
I'm equally hostile to corporations doing that. I don't recall the HN comment threats about Google doing the kind of things you describe being full of replies congratulating their ingenuity.
Big corporation doing bad thing is bad doesn't mean much smaller corporation doing bad thing is okay, it means we should work on preventing that bad thing and if we seemingly can't we should reconsider the underlying systemic conditions that enable it.