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moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 15 hours ago Doesn’t the bridge require you to run whatsapp on a phone anyway?
moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 15 hours ago
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
yeah, Whatsapp really stinks in this regard. i have it in an isolated environment on my phone (called shelter), where it is frozen most of the time. you need to switch it on once every two weeks, and the bridge will tell you when.
at some point I’ll dump it on a phone which is just in a drawer at home, together with all the other BS apps.
i tried waydroid as alternative, but somehow didn’t really make it work (didn’t put much effort into it though)
If you manage to make an account on WhatsApp and move it to waydroid, they’ll ban you.
Meta’s game is (meta)data collection and selling your data. They’ll delete your account if they can’t get all your phone’s data (eg if it’s an emulator then they can’t uniquely identify you)
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
the app doesn’t have access to any of my phones data now. it runs in an isolated environment once every two weeks for about a minute, otherwise I’m only using their web API. so they might ban me, but yeah, it’s not that i would care much ;)
It has access to your phones fingerprint, which is then linked to all your other activity.
It doesn’t need access to the phone data. All it needs is the fingerprint.