It wouldn’t matter to them really. Just look at how many people have gmail accounts.

They don’t even have to send the whole messages back to base. They could be categorizing your messages in to themes and sending that back to base as small category flags. Use that to build a profile on you and use those for advertising to you.

You mention something on the theme of ‘broken boiler’ in a message, that gets analyzed on the client in to a category of ‘interest in heating / boiler repair’, plus some adjacent categories based on your demographic. The categorization gets sent back and the next website you visit has an ad for British Gas boiler repair.

Well you type messages in in plain text and they decrypt it to show you the messages at the other end. So they can do the nefarious processing on the client side and send back results to the mother ship. E2EE is only good when you trust the two ends, but with WhatsApp and Messenger you shouldn’t trust the ends.

Deleting your account doesnt delete your content AFAIK.

Wrong

No optical illusion, it really gets smaller

The little nub is fine. The indicators are just the opposite of what you’d expect them to do

You’d think. But no! Its the opposite of that

Clockwise is more burny!

The Stanley Parable was pretty funny