WhatsApp does not plan to introduce advertising in chats
For a few days a fear has flooded the Internet and, more specifically, the messaging application WhatsApp And it is that the users of this tool on the platform Android have discovered images and icons right to their messages through the group and individual conversations An issue that has triggered alarm bells among users and the media because they thought that could be a new format ofthat they would be testing in this application.Something that, apparently, is quite far from reality.
The issue, specifically, focuses on the appearance of images next to messages sent or received. A small square with a logo that appears when you type addresses to webpages asno.me, go.me, fly.me and other combinations. Letters and periods that are sometimes written together for speed or error and that have begun to attract the attention of users. And it is that these images appear a few seconds into the conversation.
However, and in the absence of official confirmation from WhatsApp , these images are nothing more than the representative icon of the web page that, consciously or unconsciously, has been written in a message.A preview image that would help the interlocutor of a conversation to know what web page it is before clicking on the link and access it. Issue that, apparently, would be in testing phase and only through the platform Android , since not all Internet domains (.com, .es, .org, etc.) apart from theme appear to show this image.
This would be a system of representation or preview already used by other services and social networks One of them is Facebook Thus, when the user writes an address on his wall, completely automatic, a small square image of that web page appears. A graphical representation that helps contacts complete the information written in said publication and that does not always accurately relate to that information.Something very similar to what is currently happening with WhatsApp
And it is strange that WhatsApp, after establishing its payment system and service subscription for all users since the beginning of this year, now decide to implement . A financing measure against which they have stated on numerous occasions that they are against. Something that can be explained by knowing the history of the creators of WhatsApp, Jan Koum and Brian Acton , former employees of Yahoo who did not want to rely on the to get thisforward startup or small business. And it is that the first thing you want to do when you receive a notification or look at the messages after a night out is to greet a relative, friend or partner, and not an advertisement
Even more so after the rejection and widespread protests by users at having to start pay annually for this service, which it could deal a major blow if they also decide to jump directly into the talks. And it is that with other free alternatives more than one user would think twice. We will have to wait for an official confirmation or an update to find out what exactly this web page preview function consists ofand if, finally, it is introduced in the application.
