Comment on Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage

• boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Signal or at least Telegram or Viber. Fuck WhatsApp, I’d like at least my messenger app to not belong to Facebook of all companies.

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  • Neon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Whatsapp is actually better than Telegram lol. You fell for Telegrams marketing lol

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    • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      At least Telegram doesn’t show your fucking phone number

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      • Neon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They can literally read your messages by default lol

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  • NuPNuA@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    While it’s all still E2E encrypted I don’t really care what servers it goes though. If the UK/EU manage to get encryption blocked then I’ll worry.

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    • noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      they still collect the messages’ metadata and create a profile based on that.

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    • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do you use E2EE for all your chats? I think nearly nobody does.

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      • NuPNuA@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s on by default with every convo in WA.

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• machinin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I tried to use it a few months ago. It would not let me use it unless I have it access to all my contacts’ information. I denied the permission request and it wouldn’t work.

  How in the hell are you okay with that?

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  • jose1324@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How do you think phone number based chat apps works bro?

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    • machinin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Give me the option to add contacts individually?

      That app is cancer, better just to nope out of the installation.

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  • AzureFrost@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure the stock SMS app that comes with your phone also needs access to the contacts permissions, but is enabled by default, so the app doesn’t even ask for it.

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    • machinin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So in addition to that, why give the information to Facebook too?

      Remember, Zuckerberg thinks people are dumbfucks for giving information to him.

      Why do they go out of their way to disable the app if I deny access to contacts? Surely it would be less work to just add a couple of warnings telling me it may not work properly. But to disable the whole app? That is absolutely ridiculous.

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  • NuPNuA@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because that’s how phones work, it links your account to your phone number and uses your contacts to tell you who’s on the app too using their numbers.

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    • machinin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Because that’s how -phones- Whatsapp works,

      Yeah, that is also how computer viruses work. I was very thankful for permission control. That app is cancer.

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      • NuPNuA@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Meh, I think some people are just paranoid on Lemmy when it comes to stuff like this. There’s plenty of laws in the UK around storage and use of information that protect users of apps like this.

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