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What are the major differences between what you can do on Whatsapp vs Signal?
Source?
Oh, that's yucky. Thanks for the information, we haven't used it since it got bought by Facebook.
https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/privacy-policy?lang=en
https://www.meta.com/legal/privacy-policy/
Thank you!
Where you unable to find this without a provided link?
Yes.
The only real differences we can think of is:
Whatsapp unlike Signal doesn't have usernames meaning a phone number must be used to contact others on it, and that Whatsapp's report feature shares the unencrypted message and surrounding messages with Meta to give context for the report.
it is just a messaging app, legit the exact same. group chats, image and video, previews to links i send, it even has a way higher level of customisability that i haven't found elsewhere.