In an attempt to keep WhatsApp as a free service, Facebook will be bringing ads to the service – and there’s a rumour that it will bypass the app’s end-to-end encryption to more effectively target those ads. Facebook bought WhatsApp a few years ago and hasn’t done a whole lot with it since. But a free service that loads of people use is a massive untapped revenue source – there is no way around that. The old annual subscription for a tiny amount was removed, and we’ve all been merrily using it ever since. We will start seeing these ads in the status feature of the app in 2019. Take a look at the most common WhatsApp scams and how to use WhatsApp on a tablet.
