[mtmail]

WhatsApp used to cost 99 cents per year https://www.siliconvalley.com/2016/01/18/whatsapp-drops-99-c... I can't remember ever paying.

[bilal4hmed]

I've paid for it once, I can see the receipt in Google play

[aunty_helen]

This was early days when WhatsApp was still searching for a business model.

That business model turned out to be acquire critical mass and then be acquired, but I recall people talking about how WhatsApp was hemorrhaging money in the process.

[codingkev]

Early adopters got life long free access... until eventually even the 99 cents was dropped.

[egberts1]

Dropped because WhatsApp now can mine your metadata and make off like a robber at a convenience store.