Adding some scripts to a project with the whole intent of slowing performance on Internet Explorer, and if a client complained I showed them how fast it was on Firefox, Chrome or Opera.

In retrospect, I should have mined some bitcoins. That I didn't is the worse sin.

@k0pernikus Yes!

Steering the sheep away from sin is not a sin.

That's just genius.

@Jop- I stop if I get back my time wasted on fixing inane hardly debuggable issues for internet explorer

Why would you do that

I don't like the idea of using skill and knowledge to make clients choose a different product than what suited them fine (and thereby limiting the scope) based on personal preference -- not making money off of it is probably all that keeps it from being a crime...

@Flygger Security concerns, poor standards support that increases labor costs across an entire industry, plus a multitude of minor user annoyances like browser speed.

It's hardly a crime to steer people away from such a train wreck.

@Root doing something good doesn't make it ethical

@rkzo Ethics are opinions, and therefore differ between individuals. This is why we have laws to determine what's acceptable and what isn't.

@Root. I'm no Microsoft fanboy. It's certainly not lawful to mislead. One can certainly try to inform about the fallacies of IE instead of "clever" customizations to achieve the same.

@rkzo politics, advertising, news, propaganda, "9/10 doctors recommend ____ toothpaste", etc.

Intentional misleading -- and outright lies -- are everywhere, in much more prominent displays than slowing down a browser. And most of these ways are not for the benefit of those affected.

I see indirectly leading uninformed people away from a trainwreck like IE as a moral, just thing. The lies and misleading in these other situations... absolutely not.

@Root sure, but all of those try to sell you something; when you're doing it to a client, who hired you to do something specific, you're spending client time (and thereby money) doing something you think is important — you may have the right reasons, but you're doing it wrong and making someone pay for something they didn't order...

@Flygger I discourage trainwrecks for free 😊

@Root I just don't subscribe to deception even though it is to drive the "herd" towards my version of morality.