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These applications should be treated as Trojan horses. If they aren’t open source and you are a journalist/dissident or anyone targeted by nation states you have got to assume your WhatsApp/Facebook is being used to compromise your device.
Off topic: Why does WhatsApp don't give the option to block all calls and texts by default? That way, I can only talk with folks I want. The signal app has that option. Random businesses can send you texts to promote their shity services (typically, your number is grabbed from data brokers or leaks). Of course, you can block and report such spam, but there is no DnD option right now. Alt url as nvd is under load: Cri…
yes, WhatsApp used to be great in this regard, you would not get any spam. Now it's starting to get worse and worse. I block SMS notifications since I only get spam there (I'm Brazilian, SMS is basically dead here)
Wait until the EU-mandated intercompatibility kicks in.
Off topic: Why does WhatsApp don't give the option to block all calls and texts by default? That way, I can only talk with folks I want. The signal app has that option. Random businesses can send you texts to promote their shity services (typically, your number is grabbed from data brokers or leaks). Of course, you can block and report such spam, but there is no DnD option right now. Alt url as nvd is under load: Cri…
For me is such an enormous privacy violation that I removed the client (which is also a memory hog) and now use only the browser version.
These applications should be treated as Trojan horses. If they aren’t open source and you are a journalist/dissident or anyone targeted by nation states you have got to assume your WhatsApp/Facebook is being used to compromise your device.
Even the App Store version of Signal is allegedly not the same as what's in the open source project. So unless you compile and install the applications yourself, there's no way of knowing anything.
These applications should be treated as Trojan horses. If they aren’t open source and you are a journalist/dissident or anyone targeted by nation states you have got to assume your WhatsApp/Facebook is being used to compromise your device.
Even the App Store version of Signal is allegedly not the same as what's in the open source project. So unless you compile and install the applications yourself, there's no way of knowing anything.