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Re:Facebook buying ads for Messenger to be top result when y... by bigiain on Sunday January 10, 2021 @05:48PM (#25721072)
Deep down, I hope this has nothing to do with a "marketing decision", and is just a hail-mark "Fuck, look at all the people fleeing WhatsApp since we announced the privacy changes? We have to do _something!_ What're we gonna tell Zuck?".

(Sadly, in spite of the noise in my personal social bubble, I suspect the number of users departing WhatsApp over that is so small it's completely indiscernible from regular churn...)

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Re:Facebook buying ads for Messenger to be top result when y... by feanaro on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:13PM (#25721375)
Judging from what I'm seeing personally, it would be hard to explain the sudden increase in the number of my contacts that installed Signal as regular churn. Though I acknowledge that the choice of my contacts is probably not representative of the whole population.
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