What even is Whatsapp's business model? Some articles say they make money from the business accounts and there's plans to add an advertising model to it, but how much money do those things really generate?
It's an app widely used by people outside the US. Like TikTok, it can serve as a good intelligence collection hub provided by a private entity, but unlike TikTok, the country of origin is using the data to further genocide.
What even is Whatsapp's business model? Some articles say they make money from the business accounts and there's plans to add an advertising model to it, but how much money do those things really generate?
To sell everyone's data by replacing text messaging in a lot of countries.
Not much, but I'd imagine Meta is reading messages to fuel their ads too
It's an app widely used by people outside the US. Like TikTok, it can serve as a good intelligence collection hub provided by a private entity, but unlike TikTok, the country of origin is using the data to further genocide.
Apparently it partially involves selling data to governments so you can get turned into a crater
Or so I'm told
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