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Surprisingly, if the goods cost you nothing, you are the goods.
Why, exactly, do people still use WhatsApp?
Network effect, same as for most social things. Perhaps the EU will force interoperability, but they seem more focused on "save the children" style control and monitoring.
I hope they'll never interoperate with Threema. Threema would have to be less secure.
Go explain to my grandma why the image I sent her isn't in her image gallery.
Just another reason to use something better.
"Unfortunately, life is often not a concert of wishes, and you have to make compromises"
Stop using my own bad English against me! However, touché.
I have tried multiple times now.
People just don't seem to switch.
Even my work uses it, despite me trying to explain to them how insecure it is (although it is all insecure as long as we open it on Android phones anyway) and urged them to use signal or some self hosted service.
My own approach is that there is no way to reach me via WhatsApp. Whenever I need to reach someone who "has WhatsApp", I'll just use their "WhatsApp number" anyway. Only very few people seem to know that their "WhatsApp number" is equal to their SMS/iMessage number... ;-)
Well, I don't have that option, as I need to be available in the company's WhatsApp group to get work (⇒ money), which then means that I have to keep my Android phone working, despite it getting worse every update.