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A comment on Facebook’s New Message to WhatsApp: Make Money. Parent comment
WhatsApp was acquired February 2014 and end-to-end encrypted April 2016.
> And I am 100% confident that is why they want to find a way to monetize it directly. Not having access to data is not something they are used to.
I agree.
> You don't see them telling the FB Messenger team: "Hey, you need to make money."
I mean, I'm sure they have. Messenger has ads.
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WhatsApp was acquired February 2014 and end-to-end encrypted April 2016.
> And I am 100% confident that is why they want to find a way to monetize it directly. Not having access to data is not something they are used to.
I agree.
> You don't see them telling the FB Messenger team: "Hey, you need to make money."
I mean, I'm sure they have. Messenger has ads.