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Whatsapp let's you donate your contact list and social network to meta for them to resell.
Source?
It requires access to your contacts to work on Android. That is, you cannot type in a phone number. That's an intentional choice.
Oh, that's yucky. Thanks for the information, we haven't used it since it got bought by Facebook.
https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/privacy-policy?lang=en
https://www.meta.com/legal/privacy-policy/
Thank you!
Where you unable to find this without a provided link?
Yes.