WhatsApp is making a massive change to the way it saves your contacts

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t use meta anything

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I agree and practice this, but also impossible in some parts of the world. Luckily not in Canada, the US, or Japan. Sorry, other places.

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• markstos@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is this deshittification?

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• PrivacyDingus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  OH BOY THAT SOUNDS SWELL AND DEFINITELY NOT A DATA GRAB

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  • Broken@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They already grabbed the data when you gave them access to your contacts with their current model.

    That’s what confuses me, I’m not seeing what their benefit is in this. They have one, and I’m sure it’s nefarious, but I don’t see it.

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• Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Everyone I know has their contacts backed up to google or apple. Enter your account and password into your new phone and your contacts are there. Zero benefit.

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Please, for the love of my sanity, make it shut up about backing up my whatsapp chat history. I said no. I mean no. Stop asking. There’s nothing in there I cherish. I don’t care that you have a problem backing up the nothing I chose to the nowhere i configured; just stop.

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  • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I said yes and now I get a backing up bar in my notification tray that rushes to ~90% and then hangs for the day. Finishes in time to start again

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