😤 WhatsApp in 2012: “Companies know literally everything about you, your friends, your interests, and they use it all to sell ads.”

[threemaapp@mastodon.social]

WhatsApp in 2012: “Companies know literally everything about you, your friends, your interests, and they use it all to sell ads.”

WhatsApp now: “We’re introducing […] ads […] to help you find […] products you’re interested in.”

Online Ads and Data Privacy

Meta recently announced that WhatsApp will start to show ads to its users. We wanted to outline why online ads and data privacy are fundamentally incompatible, but as it turns out, WhatsApp beat us to it – by exactly 13 years.

Threema (threema.com)

[kzad_bhat@chaos.social]

@threemaapp counting the seconds until the people who get sent messages see what the sender bought to pressure them into buying it also.. George already has 5 whackadoodlethingamagidits.. why dont YOU have ANY ?

[scaletheory@mastodon.social]

@threemaapp

Don't use your real anything online, make it all up, trump lie it up. Even your computer name, mine is a cartoon mouse and it has nothing to do with evil disney!