Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms

• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I will stop using it of course. There is a price to pay for not being affected by this. Its not going to be free.

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• Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I personally don’t use Instagram already, no need to wait for age verification.

  WhatsApp is the one I can’t skip yet, but it they force this shit I’m out.

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  • Dalraz@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    May I suggest using Signal messenger over WhatsApp.

    WhatsApp does use the Signal messaging protocol but I don’t trust meta not to modify their implementation of it.

    Signal is a privacy at all costs foundation.

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    • Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I suggest to my friends and family, but they don’t care. A few will use it, but for groups and such is basically dead

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  • oce@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, that’s the one I am fearing, the enshitification of Whatsapp, I think it already happened in some countries.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve never used WhatsApp and never will. My friends and family can contact me through a number of other ways, and I’m introverted enough that it won’t bother me too much if they don’t.

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• Photuris@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If my relatives want to talk to me, they can pick up the phone.

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  • oce@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Isn’t the phone less private than an encrypted app?

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