Just a thought.
They already made Lite versions of Facebook and Instagram.
And a lot of the new functions (stories, screen share, and the avatar emojis) only come as bloat for users like me.
So i think they should make an official app that came without those "features", having a priority on simplicity and data saving.
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I dropped Whatsapp for Signal the day after Facebook bought it. Told my friends who use it that is just a matter of time before they wreck it and exploit it for targeted ad purposes.
Took them a little longer than expected but they announced a couple of years later that they were researching how to do it. And, of course, they cross link your Facebook data and WhatsApp data.
Lots of articles out there on the topic but here's an excerpt from 2021:
Facebook can go fuck a duck and I'd never trust anything they've touched
Jesus christ. Inferenced data from encrypted sources. Literal privacy nightmare.