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In 2018, Facebook is the villain and Microsoft the shining light, according to techies

Alan Brown Silver badge

Re: The halcycon days

"Though, if reports are to be believed, Facebook is preparing to rollout ads, and therefore tracking, in WhatsApp at some point in 2019. "

At which point the effect will be like xroach when you close a window.

There are _lots_ of messaging apps out there and every single dev thinks they can monetise their version with adverts - only to find that as soon as they try, users swiftly move on.

I suspect that Faceache has a much lower ad impression rate than they make out too - apart from the usual types of adblockers there are also things like FBP - which my entire family enabled once I'd clued them into its existence.

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