Helping You Find More Channels and Businesses on WhatsApp
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We're introducing channel subscriptions, promoted channels and ads in Status to WhatsApp's Updates tab.

Takeaways

  • We’re introducing channel subscriptions, promoted channels and ads in Status in the WhatsApp Updates tab to help you find channels and products you’re interested in.
  • The growing popularity of the Updates tab makes this the right place for these experiences, in a way that doesn’t interrupt your chats.
  • Nothing changes about people’s personal chats, which remain end-to-end encrypted and are not used for ads.
    • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 hours ago

      I am fairly close to telling people they can reach me on Signal or just call me. Sick of these ad-ridden and/or privacy nightmare chat apps.

      • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        I really want to but then ill have zero online friends and like 2 irl friends left 😔 people like what they are conditioned to like and will not change.

        • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          32 minutes ago

          I got three out of five friends in a chat to leave Messenger for Signal. Pretty happy about that yield.

          I slow down my conversation with the Messenger friends and let them know the rest of us are talking on Signal, maybe they’ll just hook up again sometime.