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WhatsApp is the worst app on your Windows 11 PC right now, eating 1.2GB of RAM doing nothing (www.windowslatest.com)

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[–] Killer57@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

There are advertisements inside of WhatsApp, advertisements in turn make money, that money goes to meta. I hope this helps you understand.

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[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I use Whatsapp every day and I've never seen an ad. There's no need to be so condescending.

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