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I was happily using WhatsApp (and had even paid beforehand when they were only charging what they needed to operate).
I invested a lot of effort to onboard family members.
Everything was fine, until Facebook purchased WhatsApp by paying about 40 USD per user.
Now I have to invest a similar amount of effort in getting people to move to Signal.
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I was happily using WhatsApp (and had even paid beforehand when they were only charging what they needed to operate).
I invested a lot of effort to onboard family members.
Everything was fine, until Facebook purchased WhatsApp by paying about 40 USD per user.
Now I have to invest a similar amount of effort in getting people to move to Signal.