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WhatsApp's 2021 privacy notification caused its slowest growth since 2012 (lydiaoncybersecurity.com)
2 points by lstepanek 1080 days ago
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Why didn’t WhatsApp’s growth slow in 2014, when Facebook acquired WhatsApp? Or in 2016 when WhatsApp started sharing user data with Facebook? Why was one privacy notification enough to send away hundreds of millions of users?