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WhatsApp is officially getting ads (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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WhatsApp is rolling out ads. In an update on Monday, Meta announced that it will now show ads from businesses through its Stories-like status feature.

Meta says it will tailor the ads to your interests by using “limited” information, including your country or city, language, the channels you follow, and how you interact with ads on the platform. You can also change your ad preferences from Meta’s Accounts Center.

This isn’t the only change Meta is making to WhatsApp. The company will also start showing promoted channels when you click on the Explore button to find new ones to follow. It’s also rolling out the ability to subscribe to channels to “receive exclusive updates” as well.

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[–] [email protected] 139 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Good news good Signal.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Only if you donate. Otherwise bad news, Signal.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Have they removed that dogshit crypto they added a few years ago? Haven't donated since.

Signal was never more than a stepping stone anyway. Centralised privacy services, that can be taken down by any government, are doomed to fail under surveillance capitalfascism.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

It’s still there, buried in the settings. TBF I wouldn’t expect them to remove it, because some people probably do use it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

No idea, all I see as options now for Paypal and credit card.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I recommend https://simplex.chat/

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I recommend you have a look at this guy's Twitter profile and reconsider.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

This is a bit of an ad hominem. SimpleX is great software, whether the guy's a Nazi asshole or not. Not a 1:1 substitute for WhatsApp like Signal is though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What does this mean? What's on his twitter profile?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

What's on his twitter profile?

Well for one, he's still on Twitter, which is run by a Nazi, so...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bunch of right wing stuff, some anti vax stuff, the usual

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I'm surprised. He didn't come across this way to me on Github, or in group chats and interviews he's done. I want to say that, as a non-American, maybe he doesn't know the kind of things Trump has done here, but then it seems like everyone knows what Trump has done here.

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