WhatsApp is rolling out ads, but Meta says 'personal messages, calls, and statuses are end-to-end encrypted and can't be used ...

By Adrienne Raphel Adrienne Raphel grew up in St. Johnsbury, Vt., and has read the personal ads in Seven Days since high school. Nov. 25, 2024 Katie Flagg moved to Vermont when she was 18 to ...

WhatsApp, owned by Meta Platforms, will introduce ads in the app's Updates tab, used by 1.5 billion people daily. The ads aim ...

The company says personal messages will remain private, but critics warn the data used for ad targeting could still put user ...

And if the success of a couple of our readers is any indication, maybe personal ads are the way to go. In April, a Dallas Observer member reached out to us following a round of emails we sent ...

"And so a friend of mine said, 'Oh, let's go to this party.' So I went along with her." Personal ads were a big part of alternative weeklies in the days before digital publications and online dating.

"She wanted company," Tammen said. After watching that, Tammen got an idea. Tammen posted a personal ad for the "lonely, widowed domestic goose," writing that Blossom wanted a "life partner for ...