Honestly, I saw some dialog and clicked Accept, despite not reading it. I don't use WhatsApp for anything critical. I use iMessage for that and I have a lot of trust in Apple to do the right thing.
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Re: Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?
#72Nope, I just deleted my Facebook and WhatsApp accounts and moved to Signal.
My parents, my GF and around 5 friends installed Signal because of me, one friend started calling me instead and the rest... well I guess I wasn't that important to them.
Overall I'm much happier now.
Re: Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?
#73Re: Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?
#74Honestly, I saw some dialog and clicked Accept, despite not reading it. I don't use WhatsApp for anything critical. I use iMessage for that and I have a lot of trust in Apple to do the right thing.
> and I have a lot of trust in Apple to do the right thing
Re: Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?
#75Honestly, I saw some dialog and clicked Accept, despite not reading it. I don't use WhatsApp for anything critical. I use iMessage for that and I have a lot of trust in Apple to do the right thing.
> and I have a lot of trust in Apple to do the right thing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28309202
Yeah I am aware of that one. They postponed the update, so your link is not actually relevant in terms of operational iOS phones right now. Let's see what happens in the next months.
Re: Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?
#76Don't have Facebook or WhatsApp.
Re: Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?
#77People seeing this post are split to 2 groups:
- Those who didn't accept the new terms are glad to use the opportunity to virtue-signal.
- Those who accepted the new terms are afraid to admit so.
I'll bite the bullet: I accepted the terms.
If you want more honest opinions, you should probably post an anonymous poll.
Re: Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, burned it in lieu of Signal immediately. Was shocked how many bright well-read people I know didn't care enough to switch after I presented them with the news.
Signal did not exist when Facebook acquired WhatsApp though, did it?
TextSecure (text) and Redphone (voice) were the precursors to Signal in 2011 through to 2014. The Whatsapp purchase by facebook happened in 2014.
But the first official release of Signal was June 2014 (which was just the merger of Redphone and textsecure)
*All from Wikipedia correlations and faulty memory :D
Re: Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?
#79We have a moral obligation to stop using facebook products. Ask yourself where do you draw the line? If you don’t think facebook has crossed it, then you don’t know enough about facebook.
That line of thinking would turn us all into the unabomber. Not that that would be a bad thing per se, obviously…
no it wouldn’t. And yes that would be a bad thing.
Re: Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?
#80Nope, I just deleted my Facebook and WhatsApp accounts and moved to Signal. My parents, my GF and around 5 friends installed Signal because of me, one friend started calling me instead and the rest... well I guess I wasn't that important to them. Overall I'm much happier now.
Yeah my gf, granny, and dad are my issue :( so stubborn and refuse to move. Okay granny is technologically unable to really :P