Comment on Whatsapp has begun working on support for third party chats (Telegram/Signal)

Melpomene@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• moon_matter@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It's still a win if the move causes widespread adoption by the average consumer. The more privacy conscious can just use a different client.

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  • sorghum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not a win in my book. If Whatsapp can send messenges to me on my signal app, I’ll need a feature in signal to block incoming messages from Whatsapp clients. Meta would still have access to the whole conversation without my permission and that’s a big problem.

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    • kugel7c@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is a pointless way to think about it, as long as signal can block conversations, or as long as you can just not respond, noone can gather your data. Only if you reply they might get some of your data, the message that you sent fully knowing that the one you were sending it to could leak it just as well as Facebook. So what does it matter if they can send you messages.

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• Virkkunen@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This will probably work like Matrix already does, you're not linking anything to a service. They're just demanding that every messaging app use the same protocol (and encryption) instead of different ones.

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• volodymyr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You still, presumably, use HTTP for your internet needs, even though facebook totally works over it.

  What’s the problem with a protocol for chat?

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  • Melpomene@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nothing at all! I just don't trust that providers like Meta won't try to undermine privacy.

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    • volodymyr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They certainly do. They undermine HTTP too. And would have done much more harm if the Web was not founded with a different governance model.

      EU actions like that in the title post stress this original, less centralized, model. It was naive to assume that free internet will remain free if left alone.

      Paradoxically, preserving freedom relies on constraints and regulations.

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• meiko60@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  if it is related to your job or to reach your clients. do you still want to refuse?

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  • NightOwl@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Then that’s something done on a work device with a work account and not a personal one. I don’t care what is on a work device, since it shouldn’t be used for personal things.

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    • Melpomene@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Exactly this.

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  • GigglyBobble@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Separate, WhatsApp-only cell phone. Or do you like to mix clients with private contacts?

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