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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by rusk on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:32AM (#25669859)
I do personally believe that for all its faults WhatsApp is the best. It’s a pity about that but I guess FB have to pay all those great developers somehow. It’s up to regulation to set the boundaries for what’s acceptable in business so let’s see what happens.
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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by josefx on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:48AM (#25669963)
> It’s a pity about that but I guess FB have to pay all those great developers somehow.

They could just run it as a paid service again? They had a minimal annual charge before the Facebook acquisition and probably could have raised that, instead Facebook made it "free" which should have been a warning sign of things to come.

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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by hadrien01 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:56AM (#25670023)
One of the reasons the founders left was that FB wanted to put ads and track users, and didn't even want to try to make a Business paid version like WhatsApp proposed.
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