- WhatsApp finally gets announcements
- They will appear in the updated tab, integrated into the statutes and channels
- Regular cats will not be affected by the Chnages and are always private
It’s official, the latest WhatsApp update is to broadcast announcements on the platform.
My initial reaction to this news was feared that conversations with my friends can be diluted by pop-ups as you see on Messenger (another meta-constituted messaging service). Fortunately, however, it seems that WhatsApp maintains its advertisements locked in its updated tab. At least for the moment.
In the updated tab, you will find that the channels and the statutes obtain the AD treatment. The channels are dedicated groups that you can join, with hosts who send you messages and dishes. They are popular among football teams, influencers and the media (in fact, we here at Techradar have one that you can join).
Advertisements are in the form of new promoted channels, which will soon start to appear when you look at the repertoire. They will be recommended to you according to what WhatsApp thinks that you will find interesting, assuming that the chain pays to be promoted.
The statutes (essentially WhatsApp) are means of sharing rapid updates and protruding facts with friends and family. From now on, the announcements will also appear as stoves – once again, you have been promoted according to your interests.
In addition to these modifications, WhatsApp adds canal subscriptions. These are not announcements, but are another (and in my opinion better) to monetize WhatsApp.
By paying monthly costs, you can support your favorite channel and get exclusive updates in exchange – a bit like you do via third -party services like Patreon or Premium Newsletters.
WhatsApp hooked me
After searches the changes, I am generally less concerned than me when I heard about the ad.
I rarely use the updated tab, and as the WhatsApp’s blog post explains “if you only use WhatsApp to chat with friends and dear beings, there is no change in your experience.”
Further on, this adds that these announcements will not affect your privacy either. “Your messages, calls and personal statuses remain encrypted from start to finish, which means that no one (not even we) can see or hear them.”
Meta explains that the announcements of status and channels will be based on the limited information it collects as where you are, the language on which your application is defined, the channels you already follow and the way you engage with the advertisements presented to you.
If your WhatsApp is part of your Meta account center, it will also base its data on information from your other accounts.
He really tries to hammer at home that our cat data is as secure as ever, and that non-dual cats will not be modified.
It looks like a slippery slope for me, but as the rest of the 3 billion active users of WhatsApp – a figure that makes it the largest messaging platform in the world – I know that I cannot leave.
It is not only because I do not want to lose the cats and the contacts that I already have via the application (migrating everyone to another service would be a sisyphée task), but also because someone who travels a lot, it is an excellent car repair platform that did not allow me to make restaurant reservations, reserve taxis and call a cars repair company when I could not have been doing otherwise.
So, for now, I stick to Whatsapp, but I also start my hunt for a new service – even by considering returning to classic text messages or Android messages from Android, which has received some upgrades in recent years.
Even if things get worse, I’m not sure I can go either, but the best I can do is try.
