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Re:Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine ou... by n_ary on Sunday June 02, 2024 @03:43AM (#40552207)
Well, nothing interesting can happen in short-term, but not sure about long-term given how much surveillance is being built under our noses.

Currently, only issue I face is, due to unlimited text/calls benefit in Germany, I also receive a lot of scam/phishing sms or random sales sms about some random agency offering digital marketing, webdev, wordpress etc irrelevant service unsolicited. I noticed that, somehow when such sms arrives, I am very proactive in immediately blocking those numbers, but may be by evening, I start seeing adverts all around the web creepily related to those same sms(mostly different vendors but related business area).

Thanks to the garbage that LLM is, now I suspect Google SMS as well as other Android based sms apps are also scanned and profiled to feed to advertisers, which I can't prove but my experience above is definitely not the Frequency Fallacy.

Re:Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine ou... by baxtr on Sunday June 02, 2024 @03:49AM (#40552244)
Thanks. So short-term: annoying spam and phishing calls/sms

Long-term: hard to say.

Makes sense