• DudeDudenson@lemmings.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m just gonna say, end to end encryption is jack shit when they can just access the content at the source, analyze it with local rules and call sending to meta how often you talk about a certain topic and with whom telemetry

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        1 year ago

        And in other parts of the world where it’s just a standard. I was surprised when I saw WhatsApp numbers on advertisements with the WhatsApp logo. Hard not to be on WhatsApp in those places.

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        1 year ago

        Also my friends and Family, but this is why I don’t use this shit, I can also communicate with them, better still, with a simple call, perhaps with an SMS (yes, it still exists) or directly in person, accompanied with some beers.

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    1 year ago

    WhatsApp seems to be something only foreigners and drug dealers use in my experience. What’s the appeal?

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      ‘Foreigners’ to where? The US?

      I don’t use WhatsApp at all, but it irks me when ‘foreigner’ is used on the internet as if ‘we’ are all in a single country.

      You’re a foreigner to me.

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        Yes. I am a foreigner to you. I’m saying, people who emigrate here seem to use it. I’m sorry I didn’t type out “people who emigrate here” and used a shorthand term, hopefully someday you can forgive me.

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            1 year ago

            It’s okay, you’ll get over not having the answer to where a stranger lives on a thread that’s a week old.

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      You know, when you’re one of those foreigners whose peers all exclusively use WhatsApp, be it child or grandparent, that’s a pretty big appeal. To me, you’re the weird foreigner who doesn’t use WhatsApp ;)

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        Fair enough, I’m just saying locally no one uses it except really sketchy people who get weird looks when they ask if anyone has it. It’s pretty much either Facebook Messenger or Snapchat around these parts.

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            1 year ago

            I never said that? I don’t even know what it looks like because it’s so uncommon here, lol.