{"id":939265,"date":"2025-06-18T11:31:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T06:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=939265"},"modified":"2025-06-18T11:31:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T06:01:55","slug":"signal-president-mocks-whatsapp-for-including-ads-we-lead-we-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/18\/signal-president-mocks-whatsapp-for-including-ads-we-lead-we-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"Signal president mocks WhatsApp for including ads: &#8216;We lead we don\u2019t&#8230;&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Signal president Meredith Whittaker has mocked WhatsApp over ads, reaffirming commitment to privacy without &#8220;AI clutter&#8221;. In a post on X, she has publicly criticised WhatsApp&#8217;s decision to display ads from businesses through its Stories-like feature, a move following the earlier addition of a floating AI button to its main chat interface.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to social media, Whittaker promised that Signal, the independent nonprofit messaging app, would remain free of &#8220;AI clutter, no surveillance ads \u2014 whatever the rest of the industry does.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Signal president Meredith Whittaker has mocked WhatsApp over ads, reaffirming commitment to privacy without &#8220;AI clutter&#8221;. In a post on X, she has publicly criticised WhatsApp&#8217;s decision to display ads from businesses through its Stories-like feature, a move following the earlier addition of a floating AI button to its main chat interface. Taking to social media, Whittaker promised that Signal, the independent nonprofit messaging app, would remain free of &#8220;AI clutter, no surveillance ads \u2014 whatever the rest of the industry does.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}