Comment by angled

15 hours ago

Aren't people here old enough to recall paying for WhatsApp's original subscription fee?

Circa 2016: https://www.techspot.com/news/63504-whatsapp-waves-goodbye-a...

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prmoustache  9 hours ago

I don't think anyone ever paid the whatsapp subscription fee. I remember they announced it, nobody accepted paying it and the app kept functionning and they dropped the idea.

  • sunaookami  8 hours ago

    Friends of mine did for Android or the app stopped functioning. You also had to pay a one time fee to even download it on iOS. But yeah, most users didn't have to.

    • prmoustache  6 hours ago

      Maybe they enforced it first on some regions and since it backfired other regions didn't have to pay.