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The age of Signal has come (lemmy.ml)
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Recent intrusive changes in the privacy policy of WhatsApp (including the sharing of never before seen amounts of unencrypted user data with the parent company Facebook) have prompted a mass exodus of WhatsApp users to the secure and open-source alternative Signal. I have been hoping for a change like this for years. I wrote a non-technical blog post about the problems with WhatsApp in detail, comparing the advantages and disadvantages of other messaging apps as well.

https://output.ilonagabor.de/general/2021/01/11/Signal.html

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 years ago (1 children)

I think that is cool, though. Still remember when whatsapp was new, it was a good app back then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 years ago (1 children)

I couldn’t quickly find a link to a site without ad cancer, but there are many stories of the WhatsApp creator calling out FB for destroying the app:

Reporter Elizabeth Dwoskin claims that the move came as a result of Koum's disagreements with "Facebook's attempts to use [WhatsApp]'s personal data and weaken its encryption." The report describes how those issues gradually emerged after Facebook's purchase of the encrypted-messaging platform for $16 billion in 2014 and how they led Koum to inform Facebook's corporate leadership of his impending departure. From the sound of things, these disagreements began taking shape well before the company's Cambridge Analytica scandal.