It’s definitely not the one grand love between the first whatsapp leaders and direction Current Facebook. This was stated by the former commercial director of the company Niraj Arora. feed on twitter and his words are not kind to Mark Zuckerberg’s firm, which bought the messaging service for $22 billion in 2014. He took advantage of an old 2018 tweet signed by WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton, where the latter said “it’s time to delete Facebook” to bounce back. Niraj Arora explains the following:
Today, WhatsApp is the second largest Facebook platform (even more than Instagram or Messenger). But this is only a shadow of the product that we put our hearts into and that we wanted to create for the whole world. And I’m not the only one who regrets that he became a subsidiary of Facebook.
But the former top executive goes even further, elaborating: “At first, no one knew that Facebook would become a Frankenstein monster, devouring user data.” Therefore, he calls for awareness in the technology world of changing existing business models. And it is, as our Business Insider colleagues remind us, that Neeraj Arora co-founded the ad-free HalloApp platform, which does not collect any personal data and refuses marketing influence. The idea is to simply connect with your loved ones. Keep in mind that WhatsApp has faced several controversies in the past year. Basically, it is a free and very powerful app that is used by hundreds of millions of people. Facebook is not a charity, so on imagine that he aims to make this service a little more profitable. Therefore, a new privacy policy came into force, which was very strongly criticized. So many Internet users have switched to alternative services like Signal or Telegram.
