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By leonsk29 · Posted
Understandable, they need to make money somehow to keep the service "free". If you're not paying with money, you'll pay with something else. In this case, it's ads. People will bitch about this, but it's basic economics, everything has a price. -
By RejZoR · Posted
A sign of a man with absolutely no taste. Also the first American president to whine about American "jobs" while selling Chinese stuff for 5x or 10x the actual worth while slapping his stupid name on it. Like, what even is this, some really bad, humorless parody? Nope, it's the actual reality. Selling Chinese bible, selling EV's on White House front yard, selling Chinese phones that are wrapped in few microns of gold for 3x the value... It's so hilarious it's cringy af. -
By David Uzondu · Posted
Meta says you'll soon be getting ads on WhatsApp by David Uzondu No, the headline is not clickbait. WhatsApp is getting ads. For years, the messaging app has been the golden child, bought by Meta for $19 billion back in 2014 and left mostly untouched. That long, ad-free holiday is officially over. Your private chats with friends and family are safe for now, as the ads will not appear there. Instead, they will be sandwiched between Status updates, just like you already see them in Instagram Stories. Apart from ads in Statuses, Meta is also letting people pay to promote their Channels. This means businesses and creators can pay to get their broadcast channels discovered by more users. A few will even be able to charge for subscriptions to their channels for exclusive content. The company says it will not take a fee from these subscriptions at first, but that is probably not going to last forever. Meta is a business, after all, not a charity. Meta has tried to calm everyone down by saying your personal chats and calls will remain encrypted and untouched. The company claims it only uses general information like your country and language, plus the channels you follow, to figure out which ads to show you. However, if you have linked your WhatsApp to Meta's Account Center, then your ad preferences from Facebook and Instagram will follow you. This entire plan certainly excited Wall Street. After the news broke, Meta's stock climbed 2.8% in pre-market trading, as investors salivated over the prospect of finally monetizing WhatsApp's 2 billion+ users. Ads in messaging apps are not new at all. Take Telegram, for example. The app shows sponsored messages in large public channels, but it also gives users a way out. For a monthly fee, you can get Telegram Premium, and all those ads disappear (plus a bunch of advanced paid features). Maybe, in the future, WhatsApp will offer a similar premium service for people willing to pay to escape the ads. -
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By monterxz · Posted
Anyone else remembered an Escobar Phone? -
By leonsk29 · Posted
And everything has to have his name, EVERYTHING.
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