Damn first Telegram put a paywall to blocking non contacts and now this.
Shit, maybe we just gotta go iPhone to get easy encryption on messages. Rcs is kinda booty.
This is one of the train that impossible for me to get off. It is very ubiquitous in my country to use whatsapp instead of text. I must suck it up I guess. 😅
Be the change
Looks like I need an alternative. An alternative for which there is still no prospect of enshitification. Which services are neither American, Chinese nor Russian? Anything from Europe?
Never used it for personal ends. But I'm curious to see if all the companies using as a work tool will divert from it.
Signal.
And IF I learn how to run Jammi, it will be my default communication application.
Explains why I've started seeing ads for WhatsApp, which was really bizarre
Get Signal.
i use none of these features.
i'm glad they are not as invasive as i thought, but they will definetly be making them worse over time.
Considering the zero byte article using anything from Meta is a FAFO moment.
adding that it won’t use your messages, calls, or groups to inform its ads.
I thought they used some E2E implemented for them by the Signal team.
Have they already butchered it completely?
I don't think any evidence has come to light that WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption of message contents is broken, but it's also impossible to prove that it is correct because the client is not open source.
Time to ditch WhatsApp
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