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Title: WhatsApp may soon require paid subscription for ad-free experience
Post by: Redaktion on January 26, 2026, 22:15:29
After initial tests with selected users in channels, status images, and status videos, even more users could soon encounter ads in WhatsApp. Now, a beta version has revealed that these ads might be avoidable for users who are willing to pay for a subscription.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/WhatsApp-may-soon-require-paid-subscription-for-ad-free-experience.1212688.0.html
Title: Re: WhatsApp may soon require paid subscription for ad-free experience
Post by: M2026 on January 26, 2026, 22:51:15
It is time to show the greedy "sugar hill" the middle finger and move on!
Title: Re: WhatsApp may soon require paid subscription for ad-free experience
Post by: Nithallu on January 26, 2026, 23:27:48
Interesting that a company worth billions of $ is begging from people to become a trillion $ company..
Title: Re: WhatsApp may soon require paid subscription for ad-free experience
Post by: JET on January 27, 2026, 01:02:06
Every fucking thing fucking Mark Suckerberg makes worse as a fucking blight ❗❕👎.......They show me ads and i will move to TELEGRAM ❗❕💪
Title: Re: WhatsApp may soon require paid subscription for ad-free experience
Post by: Laptoping on January 27, 2026, 04:36:17
So farming our private data isn't enough for these tech companies, the greed of humankind is limitless
Title: Re: WhatsApp may soon require paid subscription for ad-free experience
Post by: n. on January 27, 2026, 10:41:50
none of the people whinging here about the greed, begging, moving to tg, etc, will do the only right thing, instead they WILL keep using whatssapp - and whinge :)
Title: Re: WhatsApp may soon require paid subscription for ad-free experience
Post by: Ungrateful on January 27, 2026, 11:18:18
Why are people here being so ungrateful?

Company actively making a decision to help encourage users to migrate to other platforms and still getting hated on.

You really can't win in this day and age, no matter what you do.
Title: Re: WhatsApp may soon require paid subscription for ad-free experience
Post by: Say in bits on January 28, 2026, 16:41:44
Not protecting then at all and I'm not saying the ads are justfied, but has/is anyone run/running a huge service like that with end-to-end encryption (less data collection possible?) and knows whether the ads are justified or not?