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Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?

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Re: Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?

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Post by 65 »

AmazingTurtle wrote: post #128

I deleted my facebook account 6 years ago or so and nobody noticed it at all. It's been a platform solely to consume shitposts and stalk others - that's it. Therefore my account deletion went completely unnoticed :) However, unfortunately, I still use WhatsApp to this day - because of convinience.

Maybe it's just because I don't go one Facebook much at all, but my timeline is like... really really garbage. Unthinkably low quality posts. I've even started getting posts for Facebook marketplace listings from people I'm not even friends with.

Re: Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?

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Post by meribold »

glitchcrab wrote: post #86
InsomniacL wrote: post #85

Nobody is talking about how ridiculous it is that none of these messaging apps talk to the other. everyone i know uses whatsapp and nothing else, no real choice until the apps talk to each other.

Why would WhatsApp ever have this functionality? It would do serious damage to the walled garden which they've so successfully built.

Conversely, it wouldn’t really make sense for Signal to interoperate with apps that don’t offer the same level of privacy.

Re: Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?

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Post by pmontra »

glitchcrab wrote: post #86
InsomniacL wrote: post #85

Nobody is talking about how ridiculous it is that none of these messaging apps talk to the other. everyone i know uses whatsapp and nothing else, no real choice until the apps talk to each other.

Why would WhatsApp ever have this functionality? It would do serious damage to the walled garden which they've so successfully built.

Of course it makes no business sense but regulations are coming that might require that in the EU.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20211210IP...

Re: Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?

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Post by yosito »

Under duress, yes. There is a multitude of people and groups I wouldn't be able to contact without WhatsApp. For a couple of months I was hoping that the tide would turn to Signal/Telegram, but it just didn't really happen. There is no way I can contact the people I want to contact apart from WhatsApp.

Re: Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?

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Post by fsflover »

aoms wrote: post #126
fsflover wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which means you accepted it because you do not care about your privacy or unethical behavior of Facebook.

Privacy in our world is long gone. Move on

Not if you use TAILS or Qubes-Whonix. I use the latter.

Re: Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?

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Post by rlpb »

Here in the UK, I'm protected by the GDPR and by the Consumer Contracts Act.

I was coerced into choosing "Agree" (or whatever the button said) without any other practical option (I accidentally touched it when it appeared for the umpteenth time). I haven't given my consent and so they don't have permission to process my personal data except as strictly necessary to provide me with their messaging service. Whether I dismiss the nag prompt every time or just touch "Agree", the legal effect is exactly the same.

Re: Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?

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Post by fsflover »

GuB-42 wrote: post #127

I am the only one who have accepted here? I am the only one who don't care that much about Facebook knowing stuff about me? I dislike Facebook and use it as little as possible for other reasons, but that some company knows about my favorite brands is low in my list of considerations. I actually care about my privacy, it is just that governments and multinational companies are not my main focus. Too big, too far, at l…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29613632

Re: Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?

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Post by thih9 »

verytrivial wrote: post #53
thih9 wrote: post #33

I didn’t for a couple of months and then I changed my phone. When I opened the app for the first time, I could no longer find the option to not accept the terms.

You have accepted.

Yes. In case it wasn't clear: after not being able to find the option to not accept the terms (no "X", "skip", "later", or similar), I consciously clicked to accept the terms.
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