> If Block unknown account messages is turned on, WhatsApp will block messages from unknown accounts when they exceed a high volume. During this period, your contacts can message you as usual. Message blocking stops after message rates return to normal.
This kind of product design of opt out instead of opt in and non transparent processes is why I refuse to use these apps.
I could even live with their dumb default choices, if they had Open official APIs to consumers, for third party services to offer these kind of add on blocks
A small subset of users who really care will use it like ad blockers and they will only loose marginal revenue, and there would be uneasy truce where user freedom and business profit could both live, but they want to squeeze every last bit of money from their users .
We are basically asked to bring a knife to a nuclear fight an against an endless army. Why bother?
