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Your exploiting a security hole in my browser and overriding my explicit wishes to benefit your company is no more ethical than my exploiting a security hole in your website and "fixing" your database.
What about combatting trolls?
What's truly disturbing is that this absolutely meets a need for a paid gig I'm working on now, where the client wants persistent identity tracking for the purposes of marketing and analytics. (I'm part of the problem, aren't I?)
You're not the only one, the SEO people in my company got onto this surprisingly quickly. I sometimes feel black (hat) has become the new white: for whatever reasons companies seem to be more willing to accept the less ethical sides of doing business on the web. Anyone else notice this or is it just me?
There will be some backlash to this sort of thing seen as an increasing number of surfers stripping back enabled browser functionality.