Back in the MySpace (Bebo also maybe?) days, I met a programmer who harvested womens' profile pictures from social media for the AdultFriendFinder.com adverts on porn sites.

He didn't consider it unethical because "you'd have to be really really stupid to think that women are posting their face on a site like AFF".

I kinda thought exploiting the really stupid was still unethical, but his response was given that I worked in adtech, I wasn't really in a place to judge.

Which was hard to argue against, tbh, as I spent a lot of my time then either making popunders work again after Firefox released a new version that broke our old approach, or figuring out how to store our tracking data better.

But now that I've got a few years between me and adtech, I'm totally going to judge you hard, eug1505.