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lol at the DO NOT TRUST keys.
I've learnt over the years that you have to make the example code fail to compile or print out huge user-visible warnings or something like that, otherwise people can and will use it as-is in production, hard-coded keys and all.
Even if you make it print out a huge message, some manufacturers will just comment that out while keeping all the other dummy example data.
I've seen several production OAuth/OpenID servers that accepted an app ID and secret from a "how to set up an OAuth server" tutorial, and in one case the company was using that app ID for all their production services.
That's on the company for paying pennies for their dev and production roles.