• burritosdontexist2@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I hate that I have to use WhatsApp to communicate with my international friends. I wish we could use anything else but they will not

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      2 months ago

      I’ve heard that in many countries Meta subsidizes a lot of the cell plans and many regions still have metered data but Meta apps don’t count towards their data limits.

      I’m not sure the veracity of that, but it would explain the wide adoption and insistence on staying within the Meta ecosystem.

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        2 months ago

        For my country it’s not just Meta apps, but all the major social networks (Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Tiktok, YouTube) but it’s just certain plans that offer this.

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        Here WhatsApp data don’t count on the major cellphone provider, but it doesn’t even need it because nearly all of the people use it.