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Today, I finally deleted WhatsApp (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by AcornTickler@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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It has been a long journey.

I have been gradually convincing my family, close relatives and friends to make the switch to Signal for over two years. I am already the "tech support guy" in all my circles so most didn't really question it. Most of my friends are quite tech-savvy, and some even did use Signal before I talked to them about it.

This also filtered out some "friends" who were never that close to me to begin with. So, that's a bonus, I guess.

Overall, my recommendation to others interested would be to tell people how much you don't like Meta's business model instead of the privacy aspect. I already ditched Facebook and Instagram many years ago, and this helped defend my point a bit better.

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[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In my country nowadays you can't even contact companies and services through regular phone number, you gotta message them on Whatsapp, and I mean, you use Whatsapp to talk with the guy from your neighborhood that fixes roofs to international banking institutions.

[–] JonEFive@midwest.social 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is something I didn't realize until I traveled outside the US. In some places, WhatsApp is the default.

I've always been very anti-Meta, and refused to get on WhatsApp until I ran into that situation.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

What's app was cool as shit, until, just like Michael Bolton, something shitty in the world happened.

I installed it for an upcoming trip with loathing just because I know I may stay in places and not be able to connect with a hotel or host if I don't use whatsapp. The EU better get their shit together since they were trying to lead on digital privacy...

[–] SleepyPie@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

And to think in ~6 months you’ll probably need to go through that whole song and dance again when you switch them to Matrix 😔

[–] unadvised0625@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why is that?

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it -1 points 5 months ago

I don't know @SleepyPie@lemmy.world's reasons, but I am concerned about Signal Messenger LLC being based in the United States, and it being centralised, on AWS servers no less.