Considering the zero byte article using anything from Meta is a FAFO moment.
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2025
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Time to ditch WhatsApp
The best time to quit was 10 years ago. The second-best time is now.
No, the second best was 10 years minus 1 day ago
Slowpoke meme, I chose you... like 10 years ago.
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Signal doesnt have ads...
through its Stories-like status feature.
Eh, I've only seen it because of a misclick
Uninstalled.
Luckily I/people I interact with never used it much.
Glad I got out when I did
Me too... I just did it and feels better and better with every actualization that's showing up...
whatsapp-free since 2023!
For my the best choose is XMPP... More choices, federated, simple and very secure with Omemo. You don't have the security issues like you do in WhatsApp, Telegram or Matrix (who's principal server is in economic problems matrix.org). And Signal... Well it's a long journey and can take very bad turns cause is private and has big ties with the US and big corp, still is and option and you can use the fork Molly.
Out of curiosity, do you use your xmpp app for SMS as well? I've been doing so (since the majority of my family will not leave the SMS messaging system) but its a bit lacking when it comes to groups and MMS.
Wow! don't know that was possible! So... No I don't use it that way. But now I'm interested in explore it. Thanks!
That must be the reason they’ve been putting out more ads about chats being secure between both chatters. A misdirection so they can personalize your ads to your conversations
Seems like I'm not in the target audience for these ads. I have absolutely zero clue what any of the things mentioned above are. I use WhatsApp to send messages.
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.
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Ahh meta!!! Sighs.
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.