After the tech giant announced it would begin to include ads in WhatsApp’s Updates tab, which is used by roughly 1.5 million ...

WhatsApp announced yesterday that it will now show ads from businesses through its Stories-like feature, months after adding ...

Signal's president, Meredith Whittaker, has criticized WhatsApp's introduction of ads and AI features, reaffirming Signal's ...

In what may be the final straw for some users, ads are officially coming to WhatsApp in an upcoming version that will incorporate Meta's biggest source of revenue into one of the world's biggest ...

Signal and WhatsApp are both end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, but they differ in ownership and data collection practices. WhatsApp, owned by Meta, collects metadata on users, while Signal ...

When compared to rivals like WhatsApp, Whittaker argued that competitors don’t measure up to Signal’s security. “Neither consumer nor business WhatsApp protects intimate metadata — like ...

WhatsApp and Signal both feature end-to-end encryption for their voice, video, and text conversations. While Signal hides the metadata of its encrypted messages, WhatsApp does not. Signal is also ...

Q: What’s the difference between Signal and WhatsApp, and should I switch? A: Until recent news involving the Signal app, it was a relatively unknown messaging app compared to WhatsApp to many ...

Q: What’s the difference between Signal and WhatsApp, and should I switch? A: Until recent news involving the Signal app, it was a relatively unknown messaging platform to many nontechnical ...

WhatsApp uses the Signal Protocol (see above), meaning it offers a reliably secure form of protection for messages by default. One problem with WhatsApp is that, while the content of your messages ...

While we might see encrypted RCS messaging come to iOS and Android soon, you can use encrypted messaging apps Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp now to communicate with people regardless of platform.