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Why you might not want to use whatsapp anymore (www.slashgear.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

A Mark Zuckerberg Production

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the Meta logo on the commercial was enough to keep me away from this forever.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

... & gold endorsement of whatsapp cofounder Brian Acton saying : “I am a sellout. I acknowledge that.” & donating $50M for Signal Foundation

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I joined WhatsApp after many years of holding out, there was simply no other practical way to keep in touch with many people. The ways I mitigate the privacy concerns are:

I got an international eSIM, for the purpose of cheap roaming abroad but since I now had this extra phone number not tied to my identity, I used it for WhatsApp.
I installed WhatsApp using Island so it has access to just the contacts in the "work profile", that is, just people who have WhatsApp anyway.