Meta pushed a WhatsApp update that replaces the soccer ball ⚽ with the FIFA corruption cup soccer ball by Adidas
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Consume the ads like a good corpo-drone. Lobby the unicode consortium to have your emoji added/removed because you have no control over your computer; you have no property. Drone does what the computer says to do. Consume ads. Beep bop.
Dammmmn, that’s an ugly ball. Let’s call it the Curseball Games insted.
(Fun thing: The football you usually see in emojis is also based on an official World Cup ball, but at least that one’s a classic for a reason. Looks distinctive. Looks cool. Can’t say the same for most of the recent ones, it’s all a blur to me!)
It’s about a hunnert billionaires banding together…c’mon we can take 'em all down! Let’s Robin Hood all those motherfuckers!
Fucking disgusting, really. Piece of shit app.
It’s messaggio!
Everyone, messaggio has come to see us!
Why are you using meta WhatsApp? The fuck?
Because 3 billion other people do.
3 billion sources of revenue for meta, harvesting all that data, training AI, selling ads!
So they can create data centers, push AI, influence politics, and in general have one person live a billionairs lifestyle.
I think you just gave me 3 billion reasons NOT to use it. Are you going to continue to fund those things?
To communicate with people who aren’t tech nerds, i.e. majority of the population.
I switched off an my parents, grandparents and siblings all switched to signal with me.
I’m not saying everyone can or will, but it may be easier that we think.Mine tried Signal and then vehemently returned to WhatsApp…
I did the same. Took a while but the whole family was on board.
Now on to convince multiple circles of friends and every new person I meet…
In many parts of the world Whatsapp is the dominate communication platform. My landlord sends me my utility bills through WhatsApp, as is my doctor’s scheduling platform, and my vet’s contact info, etc. It’s basically impossible to do things without it.
I live in one of those places. It does make it hard, but someone has to decide not to fund meta, so I put my foot down and won’t do it. It isn’t easy, but I manage.
Probably because “Network effect”. Many places whatsapp is basically the texting app and you are fucking forced to use it
Seriously this. Fuck Meta and shame on OP. There are much less evil VoIP apps available.
Okay, come back to us when you figure out how to convince my entire family to download Signal or Telegram (which are seen as shady anyway) just because one person they know wants them to.
It’s not realistic.
delete the apps
if your family need you they’ll find you
Tell them what they are directly funding, and take a stand.
How would you people have ever got by in the past, lol.
OH NO!
Anyway, who cares?
If this is the shit you care about you need to spend less time on your phone
Honestly, who cares? Use it or don’t.
Not to you, to meme OP
Why is there a lime green baseball?
It’s a softie for the ladies
Kind of weird how the ladies ball is bigger. We have smaller hands. Ours should be smaller.
FIFA ball does not look happy
If you see it as pointing to the right it looks pretty content, actually.
Genuinely why would you have a problem with this? It’s just an extra emoji, as far as advertising goes that’s not that bad
Technically it’s not even an emoji
Emojis are a standard defined by Unicode Consortium
By FIFA, the people who gave Trump a peace prize? Yeah, why would that be annoying?
I could put those balls in my ass abd I still wouldn’t get a pallbearer outta my marriage. Did I spell that right. Hope I did. Wouldn’t want to be wrong on yhr intenert
Fully convinced this is an LLM told to misspell in order to look more human and it just can’t without losing it.
Man, I bet you can’t tell me what tf to do boy. Nor can I tell you to investigate. No one fucking investigates. I do one stretch of comments at a time and most people are so chuckle happy they don’t even know God’s a unified field of consciousness that arose from the supersymmetry of the ever-present, eternal emptiness to then fold in and on Itself across eleven dimensions to form a topological matrix that acts as a monadic nodal communication system, let alone I teach this in my educational (f)art project, but retard over here is “fully convinced,” so why don’t I mention how much I love feet and leave it at that.
Haha. What a joke.
You got advertising in my data scraping app!
