Dave Lane 🇳🇿 on Nostr: I routinely have to tell people 'I don't use WhatsApp' when they want to contact me. ...
I routinely have to tell people 'I don't use WhatsApp' when they want to contact me. Few people understand that for me it's a question of principle. I *do* use Signal, which is functionally equivalent. My big question is 'how does Meta make money from WhatsApp', so I started investigating. They claim to make small amounts of revenue from charging businesses to use their API to send messages to WhatsApp users (i.e. spam). Meta also records metadata for the advertising profiles they sell... 1/2
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