Oh boy, what can’t we put ads in?
Can we get MtDew Green Lights with Coca-Cola Red lights?
The spacebar on laptops is free game, just asking for it.
It really is a shame that I can still buy bedsheets that aren’t branded with a corporate advertising campaign.
Time has shown that people would rather watch ads than pay money for digital goods and services.
Because the pricing is fucking ridiculous for the ad free version of things. And even then, ad-free usually means ad-free for a limited time until the profit line starts to slow down.
If you make full use of a YouTube Premium family plan, each person pays around $4/month.
Is that a ridiculous price?
me and my friends pay like 1usd/month premium family plan just to avoid the fkng ads
Do you think you’re paying a ridiculous price?
Booo! Boo this man!
I paid for Whatsapp many years ago. I wonder if they can just do that retroactively.
You paid??? What is this, a WinRAR equivalent flex? I just reinstalled or something like that can’t remember.
The app market was different back then. No real alternatives, not meta owned, I think I paid 1€. Nowadays I wouldn’t pay for any app other than a good Lemmy reader, I also use my phone for not much else anymore.
Yeah but like I had WhatsApp back then and I simply reinstalled or something like that.
Like it was like WinRAR more a suggestion than a strong requirement, there were ways to bypass it, start the 1 free year again or whatever it was called back then.
There wasn’t a strong enforcement or validation.
WhatsApp original business plan was ‘use the app fro free for a year and than pay $1 per year’. I wouldn’t mind paying $1 per year for for an app without adds and respecting my privacy.
Sadly your data is worth more than $1 a year 😞
I think I paid 79p for WhatsApp back on the iPhone 3G or something.
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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