Comment by bgw254

I think assuming engineers know about the legality of some of these features is a far fetch. Pixel tracking has been a thing for more than a decade now, Google does it, Meta does it and theyre but the two biggest players but a lot of companies track and read cookies for personalization reasons. It may feel wrong but it is hard to blame an engineer for thinking of it as just another normal feature. The PMs, Managers and leadership should be responsible for this but at Meta, Managers are trackers and slave masters, not thinkers. Features are to be delivered fast, there is no room to think and plan. Metrics rule everything even when they are clearly evil.