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• jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Unfortunately, I don’t trust Apple either. I think Telegram or Signal might be a good option, but then again. They are just a CEO away from it being shitty.

  I wish there was a better solution that is OSS but it won’t catch on.

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  • accideath@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I trust them a bit more than meta or google. Meta‘s main business model is selling data/ads. Apple’s main business model is selling hardware.

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    • jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think they sell the perception of privacy. They might not sell your data, but they certainly use that data to sell to you. They only care about profits and any privacy that you think you might have is just a byproduct of that greed.

      Apple is an optics company and damn good at it too.

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      • accideath@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I know Apple aren’t perfect but they are the only major tech company that even try to seem like they take privacy seriously. Obviously, we don’t know how much data they actually harvest but at least they say it’s all private and on device. They make a believable case for their product actually being their hardware. You even pay extra for that. Meta, Google, Microsoft & Co. are pretty open, that all they want is your data and that you are the product. So, unless you want to go the extra mile and actively pursue privacy (get ungoogled android or a Linux phone, and only use open source software, etc.), Apple seems to be your best bet, imo

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• Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I live in Poland, and most people use Meta’s Messenger here, although some people use WhatsApp and some also Telegram (but mostly by Ukrainians and Belarusians).

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  • accideath@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ah yes, Facebook Messenger. The only chat app I’d hate using even more than WhatsApp…

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• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  European here, this is just wrong, I don’t use WhatsApp, nor does my friends or family

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  • accideath@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Everyone was an exaggeration, obviously. WhatsApp is still very prominent and the primary messaging service in large parts of Europe.

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