At the moment it isn't bad - the subscription ad bar shows once per year I believe. But locking voice messages in privacy settings behind paywall isn't nice. It

At the moment it isn't bad - the subscription ad bar shows once per year I believe. But locking voice messages in privacy settings behind paywall isn't nice. It seems they also locked text messages from everyone behind premium quite recently because I'm pretty sure you could set it up to contacts only without paying. Now it's "contacts and premium users"; so basically "you can get spam from unknown contacts unless you pay us for the feature". I guess they'll start locking more features soon. 150PLN/~35€ per year isn't something I'd pay for an messenger app. As for alternatives, I'm looking back at Signal which was installed by few friends of mine already but they were rather experimenting with it than becoming active users. There's Session, SimpleX which both look quite interesting, and of course there's Matrix but none interested anyone from my circles and I doubt it would do. They're singing "I won't install another app on my phone" and "Messenger is enough for me, why I would install that" tunes.