Comment on Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage

• 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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      • machinin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If it’s so benign, why make it necessary to give all the information about all your contacts to the app?

        To paraphrase Zuckerberg, “people are dumbfucks for giving me so much information.”

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      • timetraveller@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And all thieves pay close attention to laws, and make sure their apps have “nothing” hidden in the folds.

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