Hoshea

Agreed, I even went into this article after reading your comment thinking "Hmm, I'll just scroll through quickly and block all of the images then take my time reading without the distractions"...I had to give up after 5 or 6, didn't even bother reading the article.

EDIT: Saw the Safari reader view comment below and ended up using Edge's reading view for this. That makes it tolerable but I really shouldn't have to do this.

It may not be a bad idea to report this user via GitHub's "block or report" feature when viewing that account: https://github.com/dmcahelper

That type of behavior can only be bad for open source software. Threats like "to minimize file and repository impacts" are going to push more folks toward private repositories if they don't understand that it's not an actual authority pressing them into making changes on a given platform.

Anything special about the way this one is spreading or just the usual suspects?

He's not making an argument for the elimination of ads, bloat comes in so many different forms. Loading entire libraries to solve trivial tasks, dragging in massive images where they don't belong, etc.

Apparently several other messaging apps behave similarly, from the replies in that tweet there were mentions of Facebook Messenger[0] and Telegram[1].

[0]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCRsz7mXUAAEbKK.jpg [1]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCSyWs0XcAAQb2N.jpg

For what it's worth, I assumed this would be an app focused on teaching Python.

"YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY YC YC YC YC YCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC RUST" is also 100% with 0% flag probability :)