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WhatsApp head confirms ads in the messaging app are still in the works (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah but it's not about you, it's about making the messaging app choice in the daily life more balanced for the average user. The average user doesnt care about tos or privacy. You wont get the average user to switch to signal by saying "take care of your privacy". The average user wants to send messages to their friends. Thats it. And because publicly traded companies have to grow they have to increase revenue from their services. So, monetize user data, which lawmakers could stop, increase revenue by charging a fee, which the average user doesnt want to, or show ads, no one wants to. And I guess free software has the benefit of working without the need to monetize their users. THIS is the selling point. And if you get it to work across different messaging apps, users will leave wa.