Comment by lencastre
2 years ago
It’s beginning to sound like the 1 EUR/year that at some point WhatsApp wanted to charge and it seemed reasonable to me at the time. Signal is even better and even more so justified.
2 years ago
It’s beginning to sound like the 1 EUR/year that at some point WhatsApp wanted to charge and it seemed reasonable to me at the time. Signal is even better and even more so justified.
They used to "require" a subscription of 1$/year but it was not enforced. If you missed the deadline, nothing happened. It was basically the WinRAR model but for an online service.
That may have been an A/B testing of sorts then, because I was booted right away.
> whether you’ve been required to pay WhatsApp’s annual fee depends very much on when you joined the service, and even on what country you live in.
Source: https://venturebeat.com/mobile/whatsapp-subscription/