Pray tell me what are the dark patterns in WhatsApp. My entire circle uses it purely because it is the best app out there. Signal, iMessage or Google's dozen or so chat apps do not come anywhere close.
Pray tell why you need to cherry-pick examples in your arguments.
Just because you consider ONE product from a large company good, doesn't make every single big tech product the same. Meta is from a completely different sector from the one I was talking about, and its other two money-making main products are riddled with tracking and dark-patterns.
My point stands: nobody needs a trillion-dollar company to host a website.