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Part of too many unwanted Whatsapp groups? Now you can control who adds you

With the new privacy setting for groups, users will have the option to set the privacy settings to either nobody, my contacts or everyone

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BS Web Team New Delhi
Facebook-owned instant messaging platform WhatsApp on April 4 introduced a privacy setting for groups on its platform, providing users control on who can add them to groups. WhatsApp had been testing this feature under beta program, and from Wednesday onwards it will roll it out to all  users in batches as an app update.

Until now, anyone available on WhatsApp had the option to create a group and add anyone from the list of contacts. With the new privacy setting for groups, users will have the option to set the privacy settings to either nobody, my contacts or everyone. Nobody means

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