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Meta does not have access to your WhatsApp chats as they are end to end encrypted.
As long as you and the recipient has encrypted backups turned on How to enable end-to-end encrypted backup [0] [0]: https://faq.whatsapp.com/490592613091019
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As long as you and the recipient has encrypted backups turned on How to enable end-to-end encrypted backup [0] [0]: https://faq.whatsapp.com/490592613091019
No, those are Backups stored in iCloud / Google Drive. Google / Apple have access to those, not Meta.
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Layoff is not the same as "fired". Please use the correct terminology in consideration for those who lost their jobs. Also, the termination dates for those who were laid off in January 2023 would be around April 2023 (the layoff news came earlier due to WARN act), so the employee count as of 2023-03-31 might not include those people. This means a difference of ~10000 can be accounted for by the 2023-01-20 round of la…
this isn’t a fucking HR email thread, fired means layoff in these lands
The dividend is interesting. Why not spend that to further grow new businesses for Google? Is it signaling that they're not unfairly using strength in one market to take over another?
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They have a business api and take a cut of transaction fees on whatsapp pay. And they obviously cross-reference the data with Instagram/FB to sell you stuff.
Meta does not have access to your WhatsApp chats as they are end to end encrypted.
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Importantly, dividends devalue issued unvested RSUs.
Could you please expand on this? If a person got issued RSUs but they have not vested yet, wouldn't they be happy that the RSUs are going to be worth more by the time they get vested?
I thought that this earnings announcement would be the first one where we'd see some impact from competitive knowledge engines, e.g. Perplexity, You.com, ChatGPT + Bing, etc., but Google still grew search $6B/15%. This is impressive both because it's hard to keep such a big business growing at that rate and because essentially everyone in my social circle has moved on from going to Google first for information. I gue…