WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app

Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by bigbizisverywyz on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:58AM (#25670039)

the issue is that people would probably not want to pay for an app like WhatsApp, and so the 'free' alternative takes hold, and whoever controls that gets the cost of running the infrastructure in advertisement fees.

If some company could set themselves up as a utility, and the mobile network operators were to pay that company to run the messaging app + infra, then it could be made to operate like a utility and nobodies data would have to be sold.

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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by __lazybyte on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:58AM (#25671053)

I could remember initially paying for a Whatsapp subscription a couple of years ago, I was happy to do so as I believed they were providing an essential service.

I think that model could've worked.

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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by flemhans on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:42AM (#25672227)

And wasn't it just $1 for a year?

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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by Cro_on on Thursday January 07, 2021 @11:12AM (#25672713)

This could work as a good argument to switch if executed well.

'your device owns you and is siphoning cash from you'

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