Considering the kinds of companies that so many software engineers end up working for and to what ends, that's sort of laughable. How nice your shiny ethics might feel glued to your chest while you in any case go help the major tech companies do everything in their power to squeeze as much revenue out of users and every ounce of personal privacy too, among other things, including parasitic dark patterns, intentional user manipulation, blatant dishonesty, industrial scales of data theft and so forth..