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Can just open any app and you will see little things that would make for a good first PR. The codebase is also full of Fixmes, many of which are very approachable for a beginner.
It seems to be that Google basically collects the whole profit margin. Companies will do this to keep growth as high as possible to justify their high market caps and hope that they can eventually scale back on advertising and keep their customer base.
Thanks.
The blasting life updates at everyone know ever knew part of it though is just so unnatural. It was a novelty for a while but that stage is well over now. Facebook eventually got features to allow people to be more granular about updates but they have never really pushed them.
At one point I would use Skype with friends which was terrible. Discord now though is basically everything I could ever want for group messaging.
A more sophisticated system that could look at the ips in use and compare to previously used ips for the accounts would notice something.
Most things are just part of the 24 hour news cycle and don't mean much of anything, certainly not worth sitting there with CNN or similar on to get fed to you at a very slow pace and full of ads.
They built a new API but are probably never going to be able to get rid if the old one.
For effective deterrence I think there has to be an expectation that the response to a tactical nuke is the big red button.