Where are you seeing that? This article discusses lying about one's user agent string, presumably to get better behavior out of a website that's making bad decisions based on it. That is not a crime last I checked.
>Not looking at ads is a crime.
Oookay, I had enough HackerNews for today.
I was just thinking.. must have found the google employee. Checked your profile haha yep.
about: Formerly of Google and Quip.
Almost anything one can do, of value to their fellow humans, is a crime somewhere.