Jan Koum, co-founder of WhatsApp, warned about the intrusive nature of advertising, emphasizing that users effectively become products in ad-driven ecosystems. This ethos defined WhatsApp before its acquisition by Facebook, a giant heavily reliant on advertising revenue. As the service begins to incorporate ads, the promise of autonomy and user trust appears increasingly hollow. The juxtaposition of Koum's original stance with current practices underscores the ongoing tension between user privacy and corporate profit motives.
Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining...
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