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Congratulations, guys. You are now internet pariahs. Your unrepentantly mercenary lack of engineering ethics is now recorded for all eternity. You have nobody but yourselves to blame.
I see what you're attempting but you saying they're pariahs doesn't make it so. Most don't even recognize these names - hell, I certainly didn't.
It’s because the actual details weren’t linked. However if you click the link and then go to the main GitHub page, it lists these people as the engineers for this service.
For most it’s just work, but for those that take pride in software engineering it’s (imo) ethically wrong. I certainly don’t have the skills these engineers have but I would turn down such a project purely on principle.