About 1.3 billion people use the Messenger service WhatsApp in the world. Soon, an annoying new feature threatens the users, however.
new from February 2019: advertising in Messenger service WhatsApp
Update from 30. January 2019: WhatsApp users turned to February 2019 on a drastic Change, because as the current parent company, has announced Facebook quite some time ago, is now going to be advertising on the popular Messenger service.
so Far, had to keep Facebook an agreement with WhatsApp founders Brian Acton and Jan Koum, the WhatsApp in the first five years after the Acquisition, no money have to discard. Facebook took over the Messenger, 2014 - the term of the agreement expires so the end of January 2019. Facebook has the power to show starting in February on advertising, and announced to this measure to implement.
Annoying new feature of WhatsApp confirmed That will please any User
Update from the 1. November 2018: ads in applications deter many Users. For example, in the case of Games, it means that many people will uninstall your App. WhatsApp has been ad free. Users could complain about pop UPS or delays. That will change now. "We will put advertising in the "Status". This will be our primary monetization method for us as a company. It will also be an opportunity for companies to reach people on Whatsapp“, is Vice-President, Chris Daniel, the Economic Times quoted.
by the Way: Whatsapp can quickly prepare legal problems. In the case of a student in the upper Bavarian wooden churches recently, the house was searched, although this was due to a Whatsapp group for the BKA.
From 2019, will have to adapt the User to the fact that advertising in the "Status area" runs. The Status area is for Sharing of Videos, images and GIFs. The function is similar with Facebook as well as Instagram (Story mode). Some employees left because of the announcement of advertising of the company. "Advertising makes us unhappy," said Brian Acton, the founder of the App, which has now left the company. Since the App has no ads.
However, users had to in the past, a small annual amount to the service provider numbers. However, in the year 2016, the App was free.
also read: what's new in WhatsApp: No User will like it.
radical new feature of WhatsApp confirmed - what does this mean for privacy?
Update from 10. October 2018: WhatsApp has a huge security flaw, billions of users are affected.
Mountain View - Since a few days the rumors hold, is now officially clear: It is a radical new feature to the globally popular Smartphone-Messenger (WhatsApp-Hammer: Now, a brilliant Super-function such as extratipp.com* reported). Facebook-wife, Carolyn Everson announced at a Panel discussion during Advertising Week in conversation with Lara O‘Reilly from The Wall Street Journal that advertising in the future Ads in the App. "Advertising for the growing business is not in contradiction to the people," she said, according to matching media reports.
in 2013, had been purchased by Facebook WhatsApp. The two WhatsApp founders Brian Acton and Jan Koum had at the time, but specify that your service must generate to 2019. This clause can thus be eliminated in the foreseeable future, according to Facebook, you can now active. "I think it is a good development for our society, and in the case of WhatsApp, we have been very carefully and slowly on this issue," said Everson.
+ WhatsApp introduces soon advertising - but only for a group of mobile users.©picture alliance / Tobias Hase/d / Tobias HaseThe question now is, what are the consequences of overlooking the privacy of this Change for the users. Brain Acton had expressed in an interview with Forbes, the fear that WhatsApp is the End-to-End encryption soften them could, to be able to appropriate advertising to play. WhatsApp has not commented on this yet.
WhatsApp attacks to radical innovation: This group of mobile phone users is already affected soon
first message from the 02.10.2018: is WhatsApp is an indispensable part of our daily lives - hardly one that does not use the Messenger every day. Globally, 1.3 billion people have even the App on the phone, so far, everything ad-free delivery. This could be over soon. According to media reports, WhatsApp reports, coming soon to display ads. The Messenger giant is already working on the function.
Chip reported, among other things, that Facebook do pressure. The Portal relies in turn on WABetaInfo. Accordingly, the developer of the Messengers are already working on the integration of personalised ads. Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, said recently in an Interview with Forbes magazine, the Messenger, should open to the pressure of Mark Zuckerberg for the advertising market.
The Ads will appear in the status messages. After a certain number of status messages to be displayed in between an ad.
First in India then in the world
to be but first of all, only certain Smartphones And Apple Users in India are Affected by advertising. As Chip writes, to the advertising, but until mid-2019 to all the WhatsApp Users in the world and also on every Android phone.
security gap in WhatsApp: billions of users
Update 10 are affected. October 2018: In the case of WhatsApp was apparently found a security vulnerability. Billions of users are affected. However, the Messenger service tells what you should do now.
also read: beware of Whatsapp: Evil Spyware reads out the complete phone - that you can do.
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Date Of Update: 02 February 2019, 12:03
