> if your only business is selling ads to scammers to prey on the elderly?

Don’t forget failed, mentally ill, manic rebrands that cost billions and go nowhere.

Oh, and enabling human traffickers.

Or alternatively, it takes some time to destroy a codebase that was created over decades to a point in that it scares the end-users.

> selling ads to scammers to prey on the elderly

I thought that was YouTube's business model.

Now if you'll excuse me I need to purchase some phony dick pills and diabetes snake oil to go with my fake NASA-designed air conditioner.

Maybe it was needed until recently and today the scale and monopoly is sufficiently well oiled that a couple 1M$/month programmers with some clankers can ship some new buttons and keep it running?

Facebook is for preying on the elderly. Instagram for the rest of us.

You need a set of good lead engineers in monetisation who can hide the fraud well enough from the rest of the company