But there are no ads in whatsapp?
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merc@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
IMO the issue with WhatsApp isn’t that it’s proprietary. The issue is that it’s owned by Meta and it’s only free because they slurp down all your private data to target you for ads.
TheBat@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
They collect your data via WhatsApp and send you adds all over the internet
hansolo@lemmy.today 20 hours ago
Right now they collect meta data to map connections to reinforce FB and IG relationships to keep you in their ecosystem. They’ve been trying to work out to ads like Viber has for years.
TheBat@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I only use whatsapp though. Never used insta and deleted fb years back, probably in 2017-18.
hansolo@lemmy.today 13 hours ago
Doesn’t matter, as much info as you shared gets put into a profile. Then what WiFi networks you connect to, your location, plus your old FB profile, all get triangulated to others. So Meta still cares because if you rejoin FB next week, it’ll suggest people it knows you are physically close to.
I use a creeper FB account at work with zero info even close to me IRL, and because our external IP addresses are the same, of auto suggests any of my colleagues that log on to their FB at work.
merc@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Not yet, but there don’t need to be. As I said, Whatsapp is owned by Meta which is part of a duopoly (along with Google) that controls virtually all ads on the Internet. They slurp all your private data in Whatsapp and use it to target ads to you on every other internet site and every other app where they power the ads. In addition, since Whatsapp has all your contacts, they use that data too. Using what they know about you as part of the ad profile for your mom, your sister, your boyfriend, etc.
Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
That weird blue ai circle I saw them put in the app sure looks like one fat unremovable nag-ad.
Same with the status stuff. They tried turning it into a social media by shoving crap in your face you didn’t want and making it impossible to remove. How is that not an ad?
CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 16 hours ago
also there’s a new critical vulnerability found every year, that will burn your fucking phone in the best case