WhatsApp is adding the ability to save contacts within the app independently from your smartphone’s address book.

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• Overspark@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If this means I can deny WhatsApp access to my regular contacts and still have a decent user experience I’m all for it.

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• mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh good. It’s really annoying have my contacts in one place; better to have a subset of them on a proprietary app

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• dudenas@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because how could you sell contact data to google and apple if they already have it?

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  • xodoh74984@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or reinforce your walled garden and strengthen user lock-in?

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    • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      While these are both certainly true it has also been annoying when I’ve added a regular contact but it doesn’t show up in WhatsApp straight away

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait is this a feature that people want? Won’t that get confusing because you’ll have two different contact lists except the WhatsApp one will be a subset of the phone one.

  Also at this point I’ve got all my contacts sorted out so I’m not going to use the feature. This would have needed to have been added at the beginning.

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  • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It allows you to use WhatsApp without giving them full access to your contacts, so privacy wise I do want this feature

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Right but they already have access now so closing the door after the horses bolted situation.

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    • EpicMuch@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah. This entirely. I will not share out my contact list for it to be stolen abused or sold

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