This is exactly what PushBullet was hoping would happen, so I don't know why they're surprised. Everyone loves a good "Google's algorithms are destroying my livelihood and I have no recourse" story... Why? Because it's fucking compelling and, to people outside of Google, it provokes a strong emotional reaction.
Nobody wants their life and livelihood to be fucked over by an algorithm, especially when there is no recourse. These stories almost always end with some random person at Google "fixing something, really sorry" with no explanation. This is how Google operates, and I think they actually try to cultivate this image of themselves. It adds to their mystique and helps them hire bright engineers.
What can I do? Same as last time this came up, the best thing you can do is just to not use Google properties or software, and turn on your adblocker.
I suspect at this point it will require a new interpreter to fully address the deeply-embedded assumptions about memory access and bytecode execution in CPython. This has been tried many times, though, with only PyPy really seeing much traction. CPython being the de-facto interpreter, and the huge ecosystem of widely-used C extensions, makes any change likely to be slow... and the upside would need to be very compelling.
I think what we see instead is people moving to different runtimes altogether -- golang, jvm, v8, whatever.
I would suggest that Python has gone off the rails trying to mimic other languages too much recently. At some point the identity crisis hopefully ends and Python will return to it's strengths -- which are best expressed by the Zen of Python. Until then, get ready for more features.
Nobody wants their life and livelihood to be fucked over by an algorithm, especially when there is no recourse. These stories almost always end with some random person at Google "fixing something, really sorry" with no explanation. This is how Google operates, and I think they actually try to cultivate this image of themselves. It adds to their mystique and helps them hire bright engineers.
What can I do? Same as last time this came up, the best thing you can do is just to not use Google properties or software, and turn on your adblocker.