Facebook-owned WhatsApp had a pretty horrid first month this year. Their attempt to make people agree to their new terms and conditions or stop using WhatsApp was not well received, to say the least. WhatsApp figures that people were not happy with the somewhat rude language they used in their earlier notice, so they are trying again. They are probably right. The wording of their original notice couldn’t have been more arrogant. They basically said, agree to our new spying terms or stop using our App by February, yours truly, the smug crew at Facebook. I was pretty nettled by the language alone and that annoyance, it turns out, was shared by a lot of people. Now WhatsApp wants to use a softer approach to coax people into giving it the permission to spy on them. So has WhatsApp made any changes to the changes they wanted to make back in January? No, they are just praying that their new phrasing which uses a lot more words and confusing legalise is going to be enough to fool people into just tapping that Agree button. In January there were also a lot of conspiracy theories that hurt WhatsApp’s attempt to make…
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