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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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[–] t_berium@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Looks like I need an alternative. An alternative for which there is still no prospect of enshitification. Which services are neither American, Chinese nor Russian? Anything from Europe?

[–] teolan@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Signal is American but run by a non profit so it can't be sold and is open source under GPL3 without a CLA from what I can see so it's unlikely they would ever go closed source.

[–] j0ester@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

You may also get invited to a US military intelligence chat too. Bonus!

[–] t_berium@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Will check it out, thank you!

[–] teolan@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Signal also has been a leader when it comes to encryption and metadata protection. Their cryptographic protocols are public domain and are the gold standard for private messaging from pretty much every perspective other than decentralisation. (it's still centralised)