If whatsapp gets into this business, I have to applaud their pokerface. Matt Yglesias wrote that amazon is a "charitable institution being run by elements of t

If whatsapp gets into this business, I have to applaud their pokerface. Matt Yglesias wrote that amazon is a "charitable institution being run by elements of the investment community for the benefit of consumers." I feel that applies more to Whatsapp than amazon. When you install Whatsapp, you are still presented (with a package in the UI that links to a blog post from 2012(!) about how companies "know literally everything about you, your friends, your interests, and they use it all to sell ads." https://blog.whatsapp.com/245/Why-we-dont-sell-ads https://blog.whatsapp.com/245/Why-we-dont-sell-ads? If they pivot to sell services after their lofty position, I would expect significant user anger.