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WhatsApp seems set on introducing ads, but they won't appear in your inbox (www.androidpolice.com)

submitted 1 year ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 89 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This seems to follow a progression

No ads
Non-intrusive ads
Intrusive ads, but you can pay to make them go away
Intrusive ads, but you can pay to make them less intrusive
Intrusive ads and you have to pay just to see the content
Content becomes ads
Ads pretend to be content (see Dr. Pepper's "Fansville")
Award categories for ads are featured in major award ceremonies
Award ceremonies just for ads go mainstream

Actually not sure what's real vs hypothetical at this point.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We've been through this before. FFS, the US has a whole event whose entire point for like 99% of the audience is to see which ads will be shown during the half time break. Cable still has 24h advertisement channels.

[–] dopeshark@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] kadu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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[–] teft@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago

This is how you end up with that scene in Demolition Man where they’re singing commercials.

[–] bratosch@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(see Dr. Pepper's "Fansville")

Nice try, Dr. Pepper. If that is even your real name!

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Oh gosh. Did my critique of ads just become an ad?

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[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Textbook enshittification.

[–] God_Is_Love@reddthat.com 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Use Signal instead and donate what you can per month! I'd much rather support them than Meta

[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's one slight issue with Signal and it's that none of my contacts is using it and I'm not going to be the guy telling them to install it just so that they can talk to me.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In the EU by next year app communication protocols need to be compatible by law, it is mainly said that it would mean that whatsapp could communicate with telegram but I suppose it also should work with signal.

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Should work pretty well even, since they use the same encryption protocol.

Won't happen though. Signal is very much against interoperability, and they're not big enough to be considered a gatekeeper that will be forced by law.

Fun fact I learned not long ago:
Even iMessage technically wouldn't count as a gatekeeper, since it is in fact below the usercount threshold the EU defined.

[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Signal is not required to be interoperable and the CEO also stated that they won't.

[–] kadu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That's... Well, I guess I have zero incentive to try Signal then.

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[–] God_Is_Love@reddthat.com 1 points 11 months ago

Not gonna lie I did this with all of my friends and family and most of them switched 🤣 But I completely get not wanting to go there!

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[–] Gamoc@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah great, then I can talk to literally nobody because I've never met a single person in my life who has signal, and now it doesn't even do texts anymore! Hooray!

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

SMS was considered a safety issue amd discontinued.

And if nobody in your friends group start talking about, nobody will get to know it.

[–] Gamoc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know it was, that's when I stopped using signal. And I'm not going to waste my time trying to convince a bunch of people to sign up for yet another app to chat in, they're not interested and don't care because WhatsApp exists.

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[–] bullshitter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm using it. Thinking of bringing peoples from lemmy to signal.

[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Just today I found out that usernames are available for public testing.

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[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Time to find your matrix homeserver!

[–] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I do love the idea of matrix, but it's definitely not a direct replacement for whatsapp, sadly.

[–] Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

How do you even search for it. What's it called ? Matrix brings up the film franchise

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[–] Hexagon@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not? I never tried it so I don't know the details

[–] maggio@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Because exactly 2 peopleI know have matrix users.

I still use it, and refuse to use Whatsapp, but it takes some effort to get people over to the beautiful FOSS-side

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[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why not? What is missing?.

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[–] Azhad@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope that they put ads, lots and lots of ads, so I can finally switch to something else.

[–] sviper@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

Waiting for WhatsApp enshittification do that I can move to more open platform

[–] jungle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WhatsApp doesn't have an inbox. What are they talking about!?

[–] Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It has a feed now full of podcasters and tiktokers, the web version offers me to buy ads for the feed right in the front of the messages, every time I open it, disgusting

[–] jungle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't see that. There's no feed anywhere as far as I can tell. I just see my chats. I didn't create any communities or join any channels. Is that where you see a feed?

[–] Flipper@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's in the second tab, where stories are. Stories used to stay open, so you could easily see the ones you already watched. Now they disappear into a watched drawer that is by default closed. They need the space to show you channels, like the one of the owner Sugar mountain or random tiktokers.

[–] jungle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you sure you're talking about WhatsApp? I don't see stories anywhere. Never saw anything like that. Maybe you're talking about Snapchat or Instagram or something else?

[–] Flipper@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

At least for me on android there are 4 Tabs. Community's, chats, ~~current~~ updates, calls.

Edit: I checked the translation.

[–] jungle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I have community, chat, updates, calls. None of them have anything related to stories or feeds.

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[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Either they haven't rolled this out in your country yet, or you haven't updated the app in a while.

[–] jungle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The app is up to date. Maybe you're right and they only deployed this in some countries. How long ago did this show up for you?

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[–] MDZA@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago

I hope they do it. And I hope It’s bad enough to push users away.

Then I my exit out of the Meta ecosystem will be complete!

[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Just don't use the Channels feature, which is stupid on a messenger app anyway.

[–] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Well, that site complains about adblockers, so it is not much better.

[–] pacjo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

In case of anti-adblock: https://1ft.io/proxy?q=http%3A%2F%2Fandroidpolice.com%2Fwhatsapp-ads-meta-messaging-inbox%2F

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does WhatsApp have a premium option like Telegram?

Not actually opposed to paying for my messenger, altho Meta won't get any $ from me

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[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm so happy I'm not using WhatsApp. I use Matrix and Telegram and that's it.

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