1) It's likely you won't because of 2)
> I only keep it around to deal with people that haven't switched to Signal or Telegram yet.
2) The likeliest moment for that to happen has passed, so that might just not happen. Biggest ancedotal indicator is prevailing usage in age group < 20
I was mostly worried about friends in Asia and Africa, because phonecalls and SMSes will be prohibitively expensive, but my worries were unfounded: north'ard of 90% of my contacts have already migrated to Signal and WhatsApp — about fifty-fifty, as far as I can tell — so out went WhatsApp. No more Facebook apps for me, thanks.
Are you saying that it's pointless to replace the w with an apostrophe because the number of characters doesn't change? If so, this is not how contractions work. The point isn't to reduce the number of characters in writing, the point is to indicate in writing where letters have been omitted in the spoken pronunciation of the contraction.
That is something very common, isnot it?
should have
should've
should ofthe a'os'rophy can al'o in'i'ate pro'nun'i'tion
If you leave out those letters you are omitting the important beginning sounds of each sylible. You generally want to highlight that sound and hide unnecessary characters.
In your case it is probably because of name-calling.
Personally I usually don't downvote people for asking nicely why something was downvoted (when it isn't totally obvious) even if I know it is against the rules but the the moment name-calling starts any hesitation goes out the window.
It's unverifiable mud-slinging and your tone was brusque and dismissive.
There's Watomatic. Author claims it doesn't connect to internet even though it has full network access permission, so idk about it. But the code is FOSS. It's on fdroid too.
Hi! Watomatic developer here. The newer version does access internet (Github API) for following reasons: - To show release notes in the app - (in works) To warn users about outdated versions. This is an issue esp in the non Google Play landscape. - (in works) To show recent contributors list in the About section ...
Having access to internet made lots of things easy so thought that was a pragmatic choice :)
You gave them the right to change your agreement when you first signed up. Agree or don't agree, in the end they will collect and use your content however they please.
Or dont. If it's important enough, they'll find a way to contact you.
I salute everyone here who is able to switch away from WhatsApp. I wish I could dump it as well, but I can't.
Why? I volunteer with a group where one of our main things is to have a small army of people out doing coordinated-but-physically-separated tasks. Everyone has a smartphone of some kind but they're of varying types and quality. We tried using group SMS but that was a disaster, as group-SMS is bad enough but group-SMS-with-30-people is one level below "just fax everybody."
WhatsApp, meanwhile, lets us make daily groups, have a QR code that volunteers can scan at check in to join the day's group, app versions that work on the shittiest Android phone all the way up to the brand newest iPhone. And as a bonus, since almost all of our volunteers have friends and family outside the US, pretty much everybody already has Whatsapp installed and knows how to use it.
The one time our Executive Director tried switching apps, I had to spend an hour talking him out of WeChat, of all things. Point being, we need individual action to pressure our friends and family groups along with regulatory action so that massive platforms can't abuse us like this.
By default Telegram doesn't even do E2EE, you're 100% trusting them not to read your messages unless you start a secret chat. In what objective way could you consider Telegram to be technically more secure than WhatsApp?
Firstly mahnouel didn't write "more secure" but better.
Secondly: if backups are enabled WhatsApp at anyone of the group members then WhatsApp is automatically uploading unencrypted copies of the group chats to Google.
I'd say that brings WhatsApp security for groups down to Telegram level at least.
Thirdly: forcing others to use WhatsApp to be part of the group gives away their group affiliation to Facebook. This might or might not be a problem for you.
Signal's new groups work much more akin to WhatsApp and maybe I can bring it back up again once the pandemic has fully subsided.
When I now meet these people IRL they seem often very happy for being able to break news to me. Not being in the loop added quality to my friendships and I'm also genuinely happy to meet somebody because "it's been ages". Have created the same rule with my partner some years ago and we do not text each other little updates during the day so that we can have "quality time" in the evening which we always look forward to. It felt weird at first because nobody else does this, but it helped us carving out "us time" in which there is always something interesting we can share (e.g. "delayed gratification"[1] is grossly underrated in our time)
Most friends have meanwhile switched to Signal so I'm now more in the loop than 2 years ago. Though I never bring it with me when I leave the house so making an appointment with me and cancelling on last minute will be a problem (one I actively want to have - as strange at it sounds). Also I bring respect to any IRL conversations by _not_ having the chance fiddling with my phone. (I don't demand the same courtesy from my peers but I like tho think as of leading by example). So my mobile is a landline that uses radio :-)
It's also accessible across multiple phones if I decide to use a different phone. I have 2 with different sims and so sometimes, especially when traveling, use the other phone.
It supports groups just fine.
Also I've had almost no issue using it for audio or video calls.
I detest Line, and I detest WhatsApp. I only use them for a few friends who prefer them.
Are they? For a couple of months now when I try to see my messages I am asked to "Agree" with their terms and there's no way to go past that screen that I can see, other than pressing "Agree".
I'm in a weird position though: I'm an EU citizen with a UK number. So I'm not even sure the GDPR covers me proper. If I understand correctly, under the GDPR I should be given an option to not "Agree" and still continue to my messages.
I've been watching this corporate stupidity train wreck play out over the last few months. Every time I open whatsapp I get an obnoxious dialog urging me to pretty please accept their T&Cs. I click it away because I can. The fact that I can amuses me because it signals a certain amount of despair by Facebook. It's not normal for an app to be usable without accepting the terms and conditions.
The dilemma Facebook has is the very real problem that people are opting to uninstall rather than accept. Their users are angry and disgruntled. Which is why they are allowing people to use the app without accepting the terms and conditions. Which is of course highly unusual. From a legal point of view, until I agree, the old T&Cs apply. Basically they are saying those were actually fine and nothing really changed and it's all cosmetics but bla bla bla could you please accept the new ones anyway. It's a very weird position to take legally.
Either the old T&Cs were fine and there never was a reason to change them or the new ones materially change the old T&Cs and they should just state in plain language why and how. Instead we get this months long weaseling that is no doubt partially inspired by the fact that they are under a lot of scrutiny by authorities in the EU and US for privacy violations, monopolistic tendencies, data leaks, etc. The real issue is that the new T&Cs are of course designed to carve out some legal wiggle room there for Facebook to do user hostile things like ads and tracking. So they are in fact a change and they need users to swallow that.