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WhatsApp is officially getting ads (www.theverge.com)
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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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[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours 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.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 hours 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.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 4 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today -2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I recommend https://simplex.chat/

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 2 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] hasnep@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

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