111–120 of 120 posts
Another big problem is that Whatsapp automatically previews the URLs, thus leaking the IP of the person. I could not find a way do disable link previews.
Any app that gives my peers even an inkling of what I'm doing without me explicitly sending that information gives me the heebie jeebies. I've gone back to using SMS for messaging these days. No more read receipts, no more "last active 10 minutes ago", no more "Alice is nearby!", and no more "you haven't messaged Bob in a while, send a message?". Sure SMS is insecure, but at least it doesn't drive me insane with all…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I can't help but wonder how many lives this feature has ruined. and relationships
This seems like a stretch to me. I agree this feature is unnecessary and invasive. But why would it destroy relationships?
I had done same thing around this in 2019. This doesn't stop at this. There were quite correlation that I was able to find with basic setup The results can be quite horrifying as you can predict plethora of things. - When is someone sleeping. - When they're working,etc. - If two person are talking to each other in closed group.
I've been using WhatsApp for years, reluctantly since it is the de-facto SMS standard in my country. I will never, ever, understand the "online" status feature. It is ridiculously invasive and cannot ever be turned off or even hidden from specific contacts. This is a SMS client, not a chat client, and revealing a user's online status is highly problematic both socially and security-wise. I can't help but wonder how m…
Whatsapp has nothing to do with SMS? Why would you think so?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you mean by "logged in"? You're only shown as "Online" when you have the app open. When you close it it turns to "Last seen".
I meant I sometimes wish to take a break from both notifications as well as my counterpart seeing the message got pushed into my client and thinking I'm ignoring them. If there's unattended to messages I feel a social pressure to respond quickly. I want Whatsapp to be more like an email client which is far less intrusive into mental and emotional space. Now that I think more about it, I could do two things: (1) disab…
Any app that gives my peers even an inkling of what I'm doing without me explicitly sending that information gives me the heebie jeebies. I've gone back to using SMS for messaging these days. No more read receipts, no more "last active 10 minutes ago", no more "Alice is nearby!", and no more "you haven't messaged Bob in a while, send a message?". Sure SMS is insecure, but at least it doesn't drive me insane with all…
Bad news about "plain SMS" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services
Earlier quoted context omitted.
" understand pretty much everything of a person, or a group." How does this work - does it leak status or location, messages, contact lists etc? We have a number of folks who are absolutely freaking out over how folks are being killed because of this - can someone walk us through how it leaks all this info? A quick note that I make my entire calendar public in terms of available times so that folks can schedule their…
> We have a number of folks who are absolutely freaking out over how folks are being killed because of this I can totally see that happening: Person X suspects their partner is cheating on them with Person Y. So they start logging every time their partner is online and every time Person Y is online. Person X becomes obsessed with this theory of cheating and discovers a correlation between their online times, concludi…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I meant I sometimes wish to take a break from both notifications as well as my counterpart seeing the message got pushed into my client and thinking I'm ignoring them. If there's unattended to messages I feel a social pressure to respond quickly. I want Whatsapp to be more like an email client which is far less intrusive into mental and emotional space. Now that I think more about it, I could do two things: (1) disab…
Yeah I know very well what you mean! I do #1 (turn off notifications in the app settings) every now and then when I want to cut off a specific communication channel. I'm unsure how you'd do #2 though? There's a permission for background data, wonder if that would be enough? Let me know if you test it! I'm on Android btw.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s one of the reasons I jailbreaked my phone, to be able to control which app can access which data and when.
your answer doesn’t make any sense in this context. this is a standard whatsapp feature that can not be turned off. you can disable networking and open whatsapp and that flag will not be sent, but also your conversations won’t get updated. jailbreaking doesn’t change any of this.