https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/7/23950795/meta-whatsapp-status-ads-sales-advertising-plans
Would you mind ads in WhatsApp as long as they’re not in your inbox?
That's great news! I let all my contacts switch to other messengers if they want to stay in touch.
Luckily most of my chats are on Telegram :)
(Yes, I know the server is not open-source and blah blah blah, but to be honest most of my contacts are on Telegram, after WhatsApp)
Telegram is great. Pioneers of chat apps, honestly. They have every feature first, and no matter how many they add, their app seems to never become a bloated piece of shit.
I've recently switched from Telegram to RCS, but I used Telegram for nearly a decade.
It was, but they were delaying the free period. Right before it was bought I remember they started to stop extending them, so some users had to pay. I know some people that paid, it wasn't much money.
I remember, maybe 13+ years ago you'd pay like 90 cts a year to use it after a free year. But it hasnt cost money in a long time.
Nah, it was always free. Never paid anything on my personal no and WhatsApp always gave extension.