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    1 year ago

    And in 5yrs you’ll have watch a fullscreen ad before you can reply to a message.

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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      1 year ago

      15 messages (watch 2 ads)

      50 messages ($2.99)

      100 messages ($4.50 - most popular!)

      500 messages ($19.99)

      1000 messages ($34.99 - best value!)

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      1 year ago

      try out WhatsApp Ultra now to send unlimited messages! Only $9.99 a month gives you full access to all premium services and removes ads!

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    That’s great news! I let all my contacts switch to other messengers if they want to stay in touch.

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      1 year ago

      I bailed to signal the day after Facebook bought whatsapp. No regrets and nothing lost :)

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      1 year ago

      Hope you have more luck, Viber is extremely annoying with their notifications and ads and almost everyone here still uses it. Can’t get away from it but at least it’s not whatsapp I guess…

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    1 year ago

    Luckily most of my chats are on Telegram :)

    (Yes, I know the server is not open-source and blah blah blah, but to be honest most of my contacts are on Telegram, after WhatsApp)

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      1 year ago

      Telegram is great. Pioneers of chat apps, honestly. They have every feature first, and no matter how many they add, their app seems to never become a bloated piece of shit.

      I’ve recently switched from Telegram to RCS, but I used Telegram for nearly a decade.

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        It was, but they were delaying the free period. Right before it was bought I remember they started to stop extending them, so some users had to pay. I know some people that paid, it wasn’t much money.

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          I remember, maybe 13+ years ago you’d pay like 90 cts a year to use it after a free year. But it hasnt cost money in a long time.

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      Nah, it was always free. Never paid anything on my personal no and WhatsApp always gave extension.