Oh no! WhatsApp to begin showing ads in 2020

WhatsApp, the world’s biggest instant messaging service with over 1.2 billion active users will begin displaying ads in the Status page in 2020. With this change, Facebook is also providing advertisers with the capability to redirect users from Facebook and Instagram to WhatsApp. These are the changes that will be made to the social media platforms for better integration across all three services.

As detailed by 9to5Mac, WhatsApp until now was a free service and it generated revenue through its business users. WhatsApp which is owned by Facebook is hoping to attract more business to its platform by displaying ads to all of its users.