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Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users by arihant on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @05:29AM (#10225517)
Adding more privacy controls would sort of kill the point of it as SMS killer. You can block specific people.

What they should control is the APIs that are popping up like promotional SMS with support for Whatsapp. These companies are obviously circumventing their endpoints.

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Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users by mobiuscog on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @07:02AM (#10225758)
I have to disagree.

Whitelisting should always be an option - it's simple to achieve technically and allows the consumer to have complete control.

Edit: And the fact there is no whitelisting is also the reason I removed the app from my phone.

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