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Re:WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App by arisudesu on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @06:50AM (#44297616)
And so, WhatsApp has reached parity with Telegram in features, in the sense that both now show ads (even though Telegram was initially promoted as always free and without ads, it was the first to abandon this promise and shamefully removed it from the main page).

Time for a new messenger, and I don’t mean Signal, but the creation of some kind of old Skype, with a peer to peer protocol. It was very good before Microsoft bought it. Of course, if the code is open and does not require a proprietary server part.

Re:WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App by bebopsbraunbaer on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @07:04AM (#44297687)
whats wrong with Signal?
Re:WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App by arisudesu on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @07:46AM (#44297971)
Doesn't it require a central server for communications?