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Originally Posted by John Scott
Shawn was kind enough to share the "cookie stuffing" tip with me years ago, and although I never did it because I thought it seemed a bit iffy, I don't think that he perceived it to be unethical or wrong. I don't think Shawn would have done it if he saw it as unethical.
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Criminals frequently convince thenselves that what they are doing is justified aka "not unethical or wrong". Criminologists call this "techniques of neutralization" (cf. Sykes & Matza). It doesn't change the crime. It just permits the criminal to act out the crime without having to feel remorse.
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Originally Posted by Ferre
Ok, so those guys tricked people's browsers to pick up a cookie in order to get provision on future deals the owners of those browsers made on Ebay by tricking Ebay into believing they (the browser's owners) came from an Ebay ad on one of those guys' websites.
Hehhe, intentions to do that not unethical? Yeah right. 
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I agree. How is this any different from click fraud? It's just a lot sneakier.