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There's nothing unsustainable about a tracking-less messaging service. Fundamentally, most Whatsapp usage is sending pictures, small audio clips and text. That
by selfhoster11 6y ago
There's nothing unsustainable about a tracking-less messaging service. Fundamentally, most Whatsapp usage is sending pictures, small audio clips and text. That doesn't take up a lot of bandwidth (= cheap to run), and should be ever cheaper as server costs drop.
- t0mas88 6y agoTake a look at what Instagram was spending on infrastructure and bandwidth pre-acquisition. WhatsApp has less images but way higher volume. At that scale it's certainly not cheap to run.