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Ads on WhatsApp: what they are and why you may never see them
It’s official, ads are coming to WhatsApp. However, depending on how you use the popular messaging app, you may never see one. Hot on the heels of the welcome addition of a proper WhatsApp iPad App, WhatsApp has confirmed it’s introducing ads to the platform alongside a couple of other features for businesses and channels
WhatsApp’s rollout of ads will change the app forever
The launch upends its founders’ original mission of creating an app with ‘No Ads! No Games! No Gimmicks!’ This week, WhatsApp did something its founders said it would never do: it’s putting advertisements inside the app. It ends WhatsApp’s decade-plus run of offering an ad-free messaging and calling experience.
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Send news tips to: will.oremus@washpost.com Betrayal or inevitability? Meta is putting ads in WhatsApp. More than a decade ...
The ads will be shown to users only within WhatsApp’s “Updates” tab to separate them from people’s personal conversations.
The cofounders of WhatsApp resisted ads in the app for years, including after the company was acquired by Meta for $22 ...
While Meta said ads will be globally introduced to WhatsApp’s updates tab “slowly over the next several months,” the company has now clarified to Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DCP) that they ...
Meta is introducing WhatsApp ads on a rolling basis. Privacy experts raise the alarm, despite WhatsApp's assurance that ...
WhatsApp now displays business ads in the Status feature, introducing a new experience that does not disrupt users' private ...
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