As a reminder, Signal is still awesome, is run by cool people who have been doing good stuff for your privacy for many many years, runs on your phone and your laptop and your dad’s PC and your buddy’s phone of that other brand …
While I still use and sort of like Signal, I feel that dropping SMS support was the wrong choice and I don’t like the direction they are going. They are also against federation which I also don’t like. I’ve stopped recommending Signal to people.
Main issue for me is that no one, I know uses any other app than WhatsApp.
I use telegram for piracy but wish people would move over to Telegram or Signal. Majority seems to be stubborn on WhatsApp because of easiness and laziness.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
In September, Cathcart categorically denied a report from Financial Times saying that the Meta-owned chat app plans to show ads.
“The reason I qualified [sic] the answer is that there could be ads in other places — channels or status.
WhatsApp had talked about putting ads in Status a few years ago, but the company never rolled it out.
A Meta spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch it’s not currently testing Status ads in any country.
Meta hasn’t provided any details about when or if it plans to launch ads in either product, Status or Channels.
Until now, WhatsApp, which is used by more than 2 billion people across the world, has relied on its business messaging and click-to-WhatsApp ads on other platforms like Facebook for revenue.
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