![]() ![]() The absence of ads on WhatsApp is due to the fact that Acton and Koum, the app’s founders, left Yahoo! due to work relating to selling ads. It cost users $1/£1 per year, or it was free for the first year and then it cost $1/£1 each subsequent year. In the early days of the app’s existence – if you can remember back to that stone age – WhatsApp was a pay-for app. He said that respect for the WhatsApp users privacy was in their DNA. WhatsApp founder Jan Koum, who is originally from Ukraine, wrote in a blog about WhatsApp and Facebook’s partnership about his childhood growing up in the USSR in the 80s when they were not able to speak freely on the telephone as their communications were monitored by the KGB. ![]() The acquisition raised some eyebrows at the fact that Facebook now had access to data that was contained in private messages. ![]()
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