WhatsApp
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Purchases
Location
Contacts
Identifiers
Diagnostics
Financial Info
Contact Info
User Content
Usage Data
User base mostly. It was the same with telegram back in the early days,also a the wast majority of the people don't care about privacy, they want convenience
Still requires a phone number, and still uses a central server. Cannot be self hosted.
Alternatives:
Wow, Iet me try these Thanks for the info
We’ll yeah! From the App Store:
WhatsApp The following data may be collected and linked to your identity: Purchases Location Contacts Identifiers Diagnostics Financial Info Contact Info User Content Usage Data
User base mostly. It was the same with telegram back in the early days,also a the wast majority of the people don't care about privacy, they want convenience
People are using Signal, just not talking about it that much ;)
There are some nice peer to peer exchanges on Signal... a friend said.