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
      9·
      20 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
        12·
        18 hours 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
          3·
          17 hours 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.

      • potatoguy@potato-guy.spaceEnglish
        5·
        15 hours ago

        Living in Brazil without Whatsapp is hell, you lost 150% of you communication with the world and people just assume you’re a serial killer, because you don’t have social media.

        • BroBot9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          15 hours ago

          Fucking countries need to get their entire communication system of corporate social media.

          Gosh people need to think for themselves again and not just do whatever the lowest common denominator is doing.

          • potatoguy@potato-guy.spaceEnglish
            2·
            15 hours ago

            If it was that simple… I agree that we need to get off Meta, but this country runs on Whatsapp, if I don’t have one, I can’t even talk to customer service or talk to anybody really.

            • BroBot9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              15 hours ago

              Someone has to push for the change that we so desperately need. Someone needs to say no when everyone else is willingly bending over.

              Don’t go cold turkey if that’s what you need to live but damn more people need to stand up and say fuck that noise, if it’s not a business then they have a choice to go somewhere better.

              • potatoguy@potato-guy.spaceEnglish
                2·
                15 hours ago

                I tried before, but I made my life hell on earth. I only have whatsapp now because its mandatory. Since 2022, I only have lemmy, mastodon and unfortunately whatsapp as social media.