WhatsApp introduces ads in its app

Post by mikestew » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 2:19 PM UTC

bachmeier wrote: post #804

owebmaster wrote: post #696

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WhatsApp make billions of dollars but Meta wants it to make hundreds of billions. There's no way to appease the dragon.

How many of the people posting here that criticize this move are owners of Meta stock? The number is certainly above 50%, at least for those in the US, since most people with a retirement plan will own Meta in some form. It's the need to satisfy shareholders with new earnings.

Post by clocker » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 2:24 PM UTC

eloisant wrote: post #808

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What about non traveling Chinese?

I'd say Chinese people are aware that their Internet is pretty different from the rest of the world. Americans tend to believe everyone is trying very hard to be like them (when they think about the rest of the world at all).

Post by crossroadsguy » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 2:29 PM UTC

mvieira38 wrote: post #794

yakkomajuri wrote: post #769

I guess this was expected, but it makes me feel really powerless in the sense that I can't really move away from WhatsApp. I have a couple of friends that I message via Signal and even convinced my dad to use it a while back, but here in Brazil WhatsApp is _everything_, and I doubt most people care about this at all. In my case, I'd love to just go over to Signal fully but then I couldn't talk to family, friends, and…

Last night I just removed myself from every friend groupchat and blocked everyone there, while leaving a status message about how they can reach me on Signal or call me. If they are actually your friends they'll come around, and families survived before Whatsapp existed. I'm also brazilian, I just won't stand with people dismissing what matters to me as if I'm a nutjob for not using their fascist app

Post by ghusto » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 2:36 PM UTC

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"the iphone 4's antenna isn't a bad design, you're just holding it wrong" - steve jobs

To be fair Whatsapp works the same, if you are not careful when changing phone you will lose your history. That's because they don't actually store your messages on their servers, they are just synchronized between devices.

Post by crossroadsguy » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 2:41 PM UTC

leokennis wrote: post #7

At least in The Netherlands, WhatsApp could show a 60 second unskippable modal ad video on every launch, and still get away with it due to network effects. If you’re not on WhatsApp, no updates or news from your kids school, your sports team, your family, your car dealership etc. for you.