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WhatsApp will finally let you unsubscribe from business marketing spam

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WhatsApp will finally let you unsubscribe from business marketing spam

TechnologyEnglish · 12 hours ago

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WhatsApp will finally let you unsubscribe from business marketing spam | TechCrunch

WhatsApp Business has grown to over 200 million monthly users over the past few years. That means there are tons of businesses sending messages to users —

WhatsApp Business has grown to over 200 million monthly users over the past few years. That means there are tons of businesses sending messages to users — and some of these messages could be considered spam. For customers, the only option was to either let them send messages and offers or block the business account altogether. WhatsApp is finally changing that.

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Pray they don’t start showing you the creepy ads like from Snapchat

(The ones where they would have a deep fake of you telling yourself to buy things)

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