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Discussion on: Switch or not to switch out from WhatsApp

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Slavius

He did so because independently developed apps from donations or monthly subscriptions do not tend to sell your data. Everything that comes for free has its hidden costs.

You still are able use WhatsApp for free as until now but you pay by sharing your data to 3rd party advertising apps that will randomly try to sell you crap using annoying ads. Hence the connection you'll start seeing ads for kid diapers on Facebook, Instagram, drop.io, on your Oculus VR, etc. just because you congratulated your friend to a newborn baby over WhatsApp. It's up to you what you're gonna do about it.

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Chittoji Murali Sree Krishna

yeah those adds will annoy a bit, but in 2019 according to mark Zuckerberg, he wanna make cross-platform vision across Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp, so when people are using facebook or instagram then y sudden worries about whatsapp combining to facebook, as whats app is end-to-end encrypted it wont share personal message kinds of stuff, but it have to share things like user registration , mobile number and transaction data with its parent company i.e FACEBOOK not to the adds,

Does it mean WhatsApp will use your data for ads?

WhatsApp doesn’t show ads yet, and the reported plans appear to have been shelved. If you are worried that personal messages will be used to target ads on WhatsApp, that won’t happen because they are encrypted.

But the increased data sharing with Facebook will be used to improve ad experience across other products of the company.

So upto you guys using it or not, as i said previously i might be wrong