OK, but does Meta have any source of revenue besides "suck up all user data and sell it"? I didn't think so.
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But at the same time, the metadata isn't. That's still a true thing. And it's still used to piece together your social contacts, frequency and location of messages received and sent. Trivial to fit that in with the truly massive amount of data that can be bought from other sources, yeah? Now Meta has elaborated on their profile of you, which is a big value add for marketers. Maybe you don't give a crap, but recognize others might be more reluctant to make that exchange.
It isn't relying on a phone anymore, simply use it on your desktop in a native app:
Stay Connected | WhatsApp Messaging, Calling and more
Stay connected with friends and family using WhatsApp messages, voice, video, and group calling across iOS and Android devices in more than 180 countries.
www.whatsapp.com
And they have an option for a poll, simply tab the plus sign and select poll. You'll get running vote count. Very handy.
When you bring Meta into any equation. Privacy becomes an imaginary number.
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Not if you enable Messages in iCloud, then your keys are in Apples hands (without toggling full end to end encryption for iCloud on).Except.. it is encrypted in iCloud. In all setups.
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I dont understand, I’ve had this for weeks now and use it regularly. Maybe it came late to the US ? But I seriously doubt that.
I think what he means is the Mac app is not Apple silicon compatible (and that’s problematic, for example, leave the app after having written a message but not yet sent it and come back to find the app reloading AND the need for you to start writing the message from scratch).
My cousin stepped off WhatsApp a few years ago when they were acquired by Facebook, and he is now my only contact on Signal. Enough reason for me to have Signal installed next to WhatsApp.
It's just convenient. Everyone already uses it, and no one has any real reason to switch unless you're a privacy nut.
WhatsApp and other messengers should use the AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) with 4K and 8K resolution options. For backwards compatibility, they can send a 1080p JPEG-compressed copy. many eCommerce-websites use AVIF, even if you use older OS and browser. Software decoding is fast enough, even on machines from 2012.
Whatsapp is my goto for texting and video chatting my international family and friends. Unless I'm 007 or a terrorist, I simply don't care about things like Advertising data, Device identifiers, and etc.
That's funny. Nice American thinking. Sue over anything.
No, I definitely won't sue over this. I'm free not to believe and do not sue anyone over this. Also it's more complex than hiring a lawyer. You have to prove such thing and that's impossible due to the closed nature of WhatsApp as stated in few of my previous posts.
The keys to decrypt your messages. If you enable Messages in iCloud (without advanced data protection), Apple has access to them so they can read your chats whenever they want.
They could… but they don’t. And that’s for data retrieval, lose your password and you’d lose your whole life.
And anyway… that only applies if you don’t turn on Advanced Data Protection which allows you to use a Fido key as the encryption key. So… anyone that really cared about the first part, has already done the second.
This whole end to end encryption talk is utterly useless. Ad targeting and finger printing you to sell you to the highest bidder doesn’t need the CONTENTS of your messages. They don’t care. They however can tell ad bots immediately when you are online. They know who you talk to, when, when do you usually come online and go offline, etc etc. all this treasure of metadata is SOLD and used to track you online wherever you go. The Facebook SDK is used by tons of developers in other apps you use. Bought a bunch of stuff in another app? Congrats, WhatsApp knows about it! Encrypting messages ain’t gonna make a difference to their business model, if it did, they wouldn’t have implemented it.
The only single advantage WhatsApp has is that it is cross platform and was so early in the game that it is hard to ask people to use something else. Apple wasted a golden opportunity to kill WhatsApp by not releasing iMessage for Android.
The only single advantage WhatsApp has is that it is cross platform and was so early in the game that it is hard to ask people to use something else. Apple wasted a golden opportunity to kill WhatsApp by not releasing iMessage for Android.
WhatsApp is more encrypted than the iOS Messages app.
On WhatsApp, 100% of the messages you send and receive are E2E encrypted, no matter what.
The Messages app if you are communicating with Android users, messages are non encrypted using old ass SMS. So <100% of the messages you send/receive that are encrypted.
So yeah, if you care about privacy, stop using the iOS messages app
SMS is not iMessage. And you can disable SMS fallback.
Also you actually can't verify that whatsapp e2e encryption claims are true. All you can do is trust Meta, Zuckerberg. Do you trust him? Really?