A screenshot of my Android notification centre, showing an unsolicited WhatsApp message from Amazon, advertising their Black Friday deals. I checked and it is very much legitimate.
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[–] 8 points 11 months ago*

I guess that's part of WhatsApp's terms of service. Good to know, thanks.

Either way, my dislike for corporations using closed platforms still stands. I really wish we had some modern, secure and featureful version of SMS - a federated direct messaging system that everyone was on, and yet nobody owned.

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