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Re: WhatsApp to move ahead with privacy update despite backlash

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I believe the sharing only applies when talking to those third parties. E.g., if you only ever talk to friends and family, there is effectively no change.

They are boiling a frog. It is naive to think they will stop here.

People's naivety never cease to amaze me.

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The issue a lot times is clients, for example if you work with small business.

You're saying that email, text messages and phone calls don't work as well as WhatsApp for small businesses? I wouldn't have expected that, so I'm curious if you have examples to share.

It's a country specific thing. I find that my clients in the US generally prefer email, Slack, and Zoom/Google Meet. Clients in India, South East Asia and Africa, and some parts of Europe (Italy comes to mind) very strongly prefer WhatsApp even for business communications.

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A $5 VSP server hosts all the social networking I need and it's owned and controlled by me. I think people overestimate the value that Facebook gives them because of the social graph it holds ransom.

That's a good solution for you. That's not a good solution for 99.9% of the population who have no idea what "ssh" is.

Why is it not a good solution for those that don't know what `ssh` is?
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