Meta has hinted at bringing ads to WhatsApp for years, and now they’re finally here. #vergecast

WhatsApp is officially getting ads. There are going to be ads in the the status sort of story screens that I sincerely believe no one ever looks at. There are going to be promoted channels in the channels interface.So, notably, the place that ads are not is in your chats. But this feels to me like maybe not the beginning of the end of WhatsApp, but the beginning of a very different WhatsApp. The founders famously never wanted ads in the app.Like they had just watched Fight Club. They were like kind of like ...