Wasn't there some kind of E2E encryption on WhatsApp? If true, how do you block users from sending a link?
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2026
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If you’re still using Meta products you deserve everything you get
or people subscribed to PARAMOUNT +just for shitty nutrek, equally complicit, since ellison controls nbc too.
One more reason for the rest of the Fediverse to block Threads itself then.
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Are they ever going to publish that 4500 person list?
when i left they were blocking everything but slop posts.