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Life fair. It's only trying to help you not have to use whatsapp.
yeah you see, the issue is, i need Whatsapp for my family, friends and work. i'd rather not use WhatsApp but i aint got a choice (yet, afaik Whatsapp will be forced to work with other apps)
It sure is a popular app regionally. Lots of people in different countries I know use it interchangeably at this point: when they say text, they mean whatsap. I get it.
But I will not support Meta, there is a line. I don't need family or friends that cannot use open source alternative. Worse case, I just drop back to sms.
But work requires it? Or you happen to have work that needs to support many customers? I suppose I could see that, but work would then be a completely separate phone only for that purpose.
you see i am an apprentice so i don't have a work phone yet, but i need Whatsapp to communicate with my superiors and all
Yep, you gotta do what you gotta do. I could never blame anyone for that.
Then when you are your own boss you can do it your way!