If they did not, they at least ignored that instinct and kept using WhatsApp…
How do we get people to stop ignoring their better instincts in things like this?
If they did not, they at least ignored that instinct and kept using WhatsApp…
How do we get people to stop ignoring their better instincts in things like this?
“We will never show you ads in WhatsApp. We promise”. --Facebook when they bought WhatsApp and promised the previous owner not to force ads in the app…
I was paying for a whole family (premium). But I will not pay and send money to a fascist state. We’ve cancelled all our us based services.
and if my grandmother had wheels, she would be a bike!
If nobody wants them… they are not worth that amount. simple economics.
supply and demand…
I’ve joined Mastodon after the twitter “melt down” and I have not gone back. It’s quite good and feels like the BBS days of yore.
And I will stay here as well (lemmy) hoping to get the “reddit feel” back again.
A link: https://blog.whatsapp.com/why-we-don-t-sell-ads
https://web.archive.org/web/20250617080629/https://blog.whatsapp.com/why-we-don-t-sell-ads