WhatsApp from 2019 with advertising – the vice president confirmed the change that will bother many users

Annoying News on Confirmed WhatsApp – No Users Will Like It

Update of November 1, 2018:

Advertising in apps scares many users. For example, in games, many people uninstall their application. WhatsApp was working up to here without advertising. Users could not complain about impressions or delays. This will change now. "We will put advertising in" status ", this will be our main monetization method for us as a company, and it will also be a way for companies to reach people via Whatsapp," said Vice President Chris Daniel , quoted by the Economic Times.

As of 2019, users must be prepared for advertising in the "area of ​​the state". The status area is used for sharing videos, images and GIF files. A similar feature is available on Facebook and Instagram (story mode). Some employees left the company because of commercials. "Advertising makes us unhappy," said Brian Acton, one of the founders of the app, who has since left the company. Since the existence of the application, there has been no publicity.

However, users have already had to pay a small annual amount to the service provider in the past. But in 2016, the application was again free.

The radical innovation confirmed at WhatsApp – what does this mean for privacy?

Update of October 10, 2018: WhatsApp has a huge security hole that affects billions of users.

Mountain View – Rumors are coming to fruition for a few days and it is now officially clear that a radical change is going to work in the world's most popular smartphone messaging system (WhatsApp-Hammer: the time has come to create a super ingenious feature such as extratipp.com *). Facebook's wife, Carolyn Everson, announced during a roundtable organized during the week of the ad a conversation with Lara O'Reilly's The Wall Street Journalthat there will be advertisements in the application in the future. "Advertising for growing businesses is not incompatible with people," she said, according to concordant information in the media.

In 2013, Facebook bought WhatsApp. The two founders of WhatsApp, Brian Acton and Jan Koum, had then specified that their service until 2019 did not need to generate profits. This clause is no longer in the foreseeable future, according to Facebook, can now be active. "I think it's a good development for our company and at WhatsApp, we've been very cautious and slow on this issue," Everson continued.

The question now is what consequences this change might have on privacy for users. In the conversation with Forbes, Brain Acton had stated that WhatsApp could mitigate end-to-end encryption in order to broadcast appropriate advertising. WhatsApp has not commented yet.

WhatsApp notes a radical innovation: this group of mobile phone users is soon affected

First registration from 02.10.2018: WhatsApp has become an integral part of our daily lives – virtually anyone who does not use the messenger every day. Globally, even 1.3 billion people own the application on their mobile phones, where everything went untouched up to here. It could be over soon. According to media reports, WhatsApp wants to display ads in the near future. The messaging giant is already working on the feature.

Chip, among others, reports that Facebook is now putting pressure on it. The portal in turn is based on WABetaInfo. According to the developers of Messengers, they are already working on the integration of personalized ads. Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, recently said in an interview with Forbes magazine that the Messenger should open to pressure from Mark Zuckerberg in the advertising market.

The ads should appear in the status messages. After a number of status messages, an ad must appear between the two.

First in India – then in the whole world

Initially, only some smartphones will be affected by advertising: Apple users in India. As Chip says, the ad should be aired in mid-2019 for all WhatsApp users – worldwide and on any Android phone.

Vulnerability in WhatsApp: One Billion Users Concerned

Update of October 10, 2018: WhatsApp has apparently found a security breach. Billions of users are affected. But the courier service reveals what you need to do now.

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