Signal president Meredith Whittaker has mocked WhatsApp over ads, reaffirming commitment to privacy without "AI clutter". In a post on X, she has publicly criticised WhatsApp's decision to display ...

WhatsApp announced yesterday that it will now show ads from businesses through its Stories-like feature, months after adding an unnecessary floating AI button to the main chat interface. In ...

On June 16, WhatsApp announced that ads were coming to the platform for the first time. Meta – which owns WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram – said these would appear in WhatsApp's "Updates" tab.

WhatsApp uses Signal's encryption protocol, so your chats and calls are just as end-to-end encrypted as those on Signal. But the main distinction between Signal and WhatsApp is that the latter ...

After the tech giant announced it would begin to include ads in WhatsApp’s Updates tab, which is used by roughly 1.5 billion people per day, Signal president Meredith Whittaker took to X to lure ...

Marijus Briedis, Chief Technology Officer at NordVPN, said: ‘Ads in WhatsApp aren’t just a distraction – they’re a signal of what may come next.

Signal, on the other hand, is a nonprofit organization. It was created with privacy as the mission, not a product to be monetized as it also doesn't run ads or track usage.

Signal and WhatsApp may look similar on the surface, but their philosophies couldn’t be more different. One is backed by a data-collecting corporation; the other is run by a nonprofit that ...

The ads are coming to Stories, the easily ignorable section of WhatsApp. Nobody’s going to notice an occasional promoted video in the carousel, let alone leave the app because of it. And Meta is ...

Telegram has been one of the biggest WhatsApp rivals — even before the latter’s privacy policy change. The platform — approaching 500 million users — has a lot of unique features that make ...

WhatsApp was once seen as a private space – ads signal a shift towards surveillance-based monetisation." "Put simply, this is a major privacy red flag." Raphael Auphan, Proton COO ...