That's odd. I did not receive any notification yet? Is the privacy policy country specific?
Im in the US and received it 2 days ago. Im the only one in the family and amongst my friends to have gotten it
WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app
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#22I'd love to give up WhatsApp, but network effects are key here. I tried moving my extended family off WhatsApp onto Signal a couple of years ago and it failed miserably because the app wasn't nearly as easy to use, and they had all their friends on Whatsapp. Has anyone here had any success moving a large group of people onto something like Signal or Telegram? If so, do you have any tips?
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#23Yay! I've been trying to get friends to jump onto telegram for a while now. Hopefully this might do it!
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#24The sooner they take such actions the better it is for everyone in the long run. Someone somewhere will come up with an alternative that is better than anything we have today. And sorry but Signal is not the pinnacle of messaging. I like what Matrix is doing but they are far away from becoming mainstream. Within 2-3 years a new platform will rise and it will fix flaws of existing messaging apps. This will then be fol…
Or, more likely, someone will buy it and screw it up. That's pretty much par for the course.
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#25The sooner they take such actions the better it is for everyone in the long run. Someone somewhere will come up with an alternative that is better than anything we have today. And sorry but Signal is not the pinnacle of messaging. I like what Matrix is doing but they are far away from becoming mainstream. Within 2-3 years a new platform will rise and it will fix flaws of existing messaging apps. This will then be fol…
Curious to all those family power users. What would you want to see in the next gen WhatsApp?
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#26Signal and Telegram seem to be the most commonly mentioned alternatives here. Which one do you prefer and why?
Signal. Open source, non-profit, very good privacy defaults. Telegram seems even worse than whatsapp to be honest because they don't even have encryption on by default.
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#27I'd love to give up WhatsApp, but network effects are key here. I tried moving my extended family off WhatsApp onto Signal a couple of years ago and it failed miserably because the app wasn't nearly as easy to use, and they had all their friends on Whatsapp. Has anyone here had any success moving a large group of people onto something like Signal or Telegram? If so, do you have any tips?
Fortunately I don't live in a place where WhatsApp is completely pervasive. I personally had luck saying "if you want to contact me use Signal, iMessage or at the very least SMS" and when people asked why, I would cite Cambridge Analytica.
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#28Signal and Telegram seem to be the most commonly mentioned alternatives here. Which one do you prefer and why?
Telegram because it works across all my devices and so far has been adopted by friends. Closest to iMessage for any non Apple device for me.
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#29A lot of people mention Telegram, as far as I can tell, it's a worse Signal. What advantages does it have over Signal?
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#30https://signal.org/en/
https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
Moving to a different walled garden is not a solution.