Big tech spying on your calls and digital trails with blessings from deep state, then force-feeding you personalized ads based on contents, clicks, taps, IPs, GPS location, swipes, agenda… and many other factors. Another addiction dragon Meta-owned WhatsApp was an ad-free messaging service initially, but things changed from 2020 onwards. At annual Facebook Marketing Summit held in the Netherlands, Facebook had confirmed that in-app ads will be displayed in its apps starting from 2020. Extra dance parties for desi suckerberg godi clubs and cyber cell ad agencies! Of course, expect some new telecom sector policy goal showoffs for a while: shovel some terrible net neutrality bills in name only that doesn’t fix the problem, but does preempt any tougher state or federal laws from taking root.
Users will see ads within WhatsApp as confirmed by some presentation during the summit. It will be similar to Instagram where sponsored content is displayed in stories and users can swipe up to visit the content associated with the ad. When a user will click on a status, the name of the advertiser will be shown instead of the contact’s profile picture and name. Unlike other social media platforms, WhatsApp will display a full-screen ad which is kind of intrusive.
It isn’t a surprise that AI powered ads are coming to WhatsApp. It has been long anticipated that Facebook will find strategic means to monetize its popular messaging platforms. WhatsApp has billions of users.. and increasing. Ads will be shown only in a particular feature which is not as intrusive, sounds great?
Unlike WhatsApp or Facebook, which are controlled by centralized authorities and few crooked capitalists, GNU social and Mastodon sounds more transparent networks of independently decentralized servers called nodes. Federation technology allows users to communicate between nodes, preserving the unified experience of traditional social media systems, and the open GNU social freedom software allows anybody with an Internet connection to start their own public or private node and join the network. These administrators can even customize their nodes to suit the unique needs of their users.
Since GNU social is decentralized, it’s harder for a company or government to censor content or shut down the network when they feel threatened by it, which is becoming norm in modern societies lead by crooks. This is more than a hypothetical threat – it has been attempted multiple times by oppressive governments. Spreading out user data also makes bulk surveillance considerably more difficult, as there is no single database to crack into and copy. No wonder, the loot-wingers hate such ideas with strategic gimmick and playing mass hypnosis tricks.
Popular and not so popular users known for criticizing the ruling elites, cronies or any other political parties or groups of power are bluntly suppressed, in silence partnership of paid media gurus. We must all create our profiles on such GNU social nodes and start posting on our terms. Your followers and friends will be more than willing to follow by boycotting the big brands en masse or even start their own, let there be thousands of Bill Gates, not just a few manageable cronies close to powerful warlords, power brokers and modern emperors.
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