That's a bummer. Means I have no alternative but to keep using WhatsApp then.
this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2024
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you're getting downvoted for not being American ๐
I've had this conversation before. The consensus last time was that I should tell every single person on my contacts list to download Signal if they want to stay in touch and if they refuse it means they're shitty people that don't care about me but I'm totally not a shitty person for forcing my preferences onto others.
People don't realize that in most of Europe WhatsApp is more popular than iMessages are in the US. Not having WhatsApp means you're not texting to anyone.
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or even a Matrix service would mean a deterioration of our data protection standards
Why? They use same algos, same scheme. Just add support for matrix message format in your app.
WhatsApp is closed source, and obviously it must be able to decrypt messages for the end user to read them. Anything could happen to the unencrypted data at this point. Therefore it's less secure allowing conversations to flow into that app.
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Using Threema is not an option. This is paid software and it is too difficult to purchase a license for this software when Google does not allow us to pay for purchases through their Android app store. No one from my entourage will bother paying for a license for this software using cryptocurrency. They will just install another messenger.
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Same
Me neither lol
Threema seems to solve a problem signal has that is it does'nt need a phone number to open account . But i haven't used any of them so can't say . (If anyone wanna know i use telgram foss which is a debloated fork of the original client)
That's not really a problem. The biggest problem Signal has is people not caring about privacy enough to use another messaging app.
If Signal dropped the phone number requirement they'd get a handful more users. If people started to care about privacy they'd get millions of new users.
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