Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads

cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I use Beeper which shows me a unified view of whatsapp and Signal and others. whatsapp itself has zero permissions on my phone. I hate that I need to have it at all but Europe is deep into that. Sigh.

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  • cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There was a big uproar amongst normies when the WhatsApp TOS changed…but people forget quickly and prefer convenience. That was our one chance to convert everyone over.

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    • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I stopped using it for 3 years, then I had to interact with a surgeon through it and reconnected with a fee people who still use it. I fucking hate using it

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  • lemmyingly@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    At least normal European people are locked into a platform that doesn’t care what device you’re using, unlike iMessage - so it’s not all bad

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    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m an iPhone user and I’ve never met anyone that gave a shit about iMessage. In the past ten years.

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      • Alk@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m an android user and I semi-frequently meet iPhone users who show anything between surprise and downright disdain towards me because I don’t have the right color of bubble.

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  • sykaster@feddit.nl ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Isn’t Beeper another security risk? They also store your data on their cloud, and it’s not encrypted during the bridge process.

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  • kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Whatsapp is popular a lot in many parts of the world. In India, WhatsApp is almost the defacto standard messaging app with Telegram probably flying in a far second. I doubt I know anyone who even uses stuff like Signal or Threema or any of the alternatives.

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    • embed_me@programming.dev ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Doesn’t help that Telegram media downloads are throttled by some Indian ISPs (looking at you, Jio)

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  • AugustWest@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But then aren’t you trusting your credentials to yet another application? That seems like a bad idea…

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    • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fair point. The simplest answer is thrt any other business cannot possibly be as evil as meta, so even worst case is a net win.

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• Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Who is forcing you?

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  • cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Only my family, friends and work. But I’m working on cutting them out of my life.

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