Ask HN: How would you convince your friends and family to switch from WhatsApp?

Post by Abishek_Muthian » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 10:22 AM UTC

tkinom wrote: post #69

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #13

Steps, I've taken in order. 0. Removing myself from all active WhatsApp groups. 1. Setting the WhatsApp status to 'Message me on Signal or Email me' and not responding to non-important messages till they message on Signal or Email me. 2. When someone asks if we can continue our conversation on WhatsApp, politely informing them that I don't use WhatsApp and asking them to message on Signal. 3. Setting a Tasker auto re…

Do we need a webbrowser base proxy for WhatsApp to Signal (and other chat platforms)? Run it on webbrowser at home / cloud instance and proxy msgs but drop all FB trackings? Any pro/con to this approach?

Post by katsuki » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 11:27 AM UTC

Post by fsflover » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 1:21 PM UTC

andreygrehov wrote: post #181

Yetanfou wrote: post #174

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Reputable AdTech firms is comparable to responsible tobacco firms, both are peddling unhealthy goods, both try to whitewash their image by claiming to be above the fray. Also, it's actually in a user's best interest to allow the data to be shared. Otherwise doctors will see ads about vaping and fishers will see ads about the latest JavaScript IDEs - no, just no. First of all I can only assume that doctors are more li…

> In short, there is no need for active profiling. Active profiling is needed so that tobacco ads do not show up in your kids' newsfeed. > b) to make sure they don't see any ad, period. Nobody likes ads, but there are millions of businesses with ads being the only revenue source. No ads - no service. It's not because site owners want to show you ads, it's because they cannot sustain without not showing you these ads.

Post by dave_sid » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 6:45 PM UTC

yumraj wrote: post #190

dave_sid wrote: post #182

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In the old days people used to write letters and send them in the post. Imagine that. Anyone could hack into a letter, and they were rarely even ever encrypted. Scary.

Yeah but no one kept tabs on who all you were sending letters to and who all were sending letters to you, and what you were writing in those letters and so on so that they could show ads to you...

Post by gucciTheWizard » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 3:57 AM UTC

yumraj wrote: post #190

dave_sid wrote: post #182

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In the old days people used to write letters and send them in the post. Imagine that. Anyone could hack into a letter, and they were rarely even ever encrypted. Scary.

Yeah but no one kept tabs on who all you were sending letters to and who all were sending letters to you, and what you were writing in those letters and so on so that they could show ads to you...