Do you disable read receipts? \ stacker news ~AskSN

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I don't like read receipts and I disable them in every messenger. I recently discovered that Signal also had read receipts. I immediately went into the settings to disable them, just as I apparently already did for typing indicators at some point.

I think they only make communication over text worse since either they don't matter because both don't care about it, or one person is upset that you left them on read for too long.

Is there anything positive about read receipts?

Here are two articles that I haven't read yet:

What do you think?

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174 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 18h

Can't for the life of me find the report anymore... but there was an allegation around 2020 or 2021 that said read receipts (and moji responses) were used by intelligence agencies to identify active e2e encrypted conversations using their dragnets - recognizable due to their constant size.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @_Bubble_2009 9h

If you were to find that relationship again, I would be very curious to read it.

41 sats \ 9 replies \ @LibertasBR 20h

Mine are active for the simple fact that I don't care, just as everyone I know knows that I rarely read a message right away if it's not urgent to me. I use the message previews in the notifications a lot to know if I should read it and the pending message markings (those with the number on the app) to know what I've already read and resolved. In some messengers I don't like the "mark as unread" feature; I prefer to read the summary in the notification and actually open the message, marking it as read, when I actually "resolve" it.

I'll read the posts mentioned.

38 sats \ 0 replies \ @LibertasBR 16h

Seeing that someone ignored your text sucks. Living in a state of abject uncertainty is way worse.

The whole article is overly dramatic by someone who didn't like being ignored.

The second one provides more concise information.

It's really bad that people read your message and don't respond. But there are many people who do the same as me, they just don't let the sender know that it was read.

0 sats \ 7 replies \ @_Bubble_2009 9h

I ask you for a basic culture of mine, in which app is it possible to mark a message with unread?

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @LibertasBR 8h

I believe that this is possible in all messengers. It is worth noting that when you mark an email as unread, you mark it only for yourself, the other person still sees the message as read.

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @_Bubble_2009 8h

I believe that this is possible in all messengers.

Maybe with the term messengers we are not referring to the same thing., because I am referring to apps such as Telegram, WhatsApp, SimpleX, WeChat and similar. In these apps I find no possibility to mark a message as unread.

It is worth noting that when you mark an email as unread, you mark it only for yourself, the other person still sees the message as read.

As for emails, as I wrote in my reply to the OP, by default I disable the read receipt on Thunderbird, so this is NEVER sent. The sender, therefore, has no way of knowing if and when I read his email.

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @LibertasBR 6h

Telegram, WhatsApp, SimpleX, WeChat and similar

All the ones you mentioned have the option to mark as unread.

by default I disable the read receipt on Thunderbird

In the second article, a method for identifying email reads through companies is mentioned. Take a look.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @_Bubble_2009 4h

Telegram, WhatsApp, SimpleX, WeChat and similar All the ones you mentioned have the option to mark as unread.

Now I speak exclusively about telegram, because I have had neither time nor desire to try the others.

You are right. There is a function named mark as unread, but the terms is just wrong.

A real mark as unread, under telegram must to the action listed at follow:

ask how many message to mark as unread
remove the 2nd tick from these last messages
put back the dot with the number of message to be read in the same colors of the other.

The telegram function does none of this. Simply put a numberless dot of a different color. Let's say as a reminder pure and simple.

I repeat that in Telegram (at least in the fork that I use), it can read messages as a preview without ever being marked read. If you want, I'll give you my Telegram contact and show you.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @_Bubble_2009 6h

Telegram, WhatsApp, SimpleX, WeChat and similar
All the ones you mentioned have the option to mark as unread.

I was not aware of it, I will look for more information on this news.

by default I disable the read receipt on Thunderbird
In the second article, a method for identifying email reads through companies is mentioned. Take a look.

First of all, I would like to point out that the article only talks about emails read from the smartphone, then I suggest you give a read to this nwes.

I was already using this system twenty years ago. An image hosted on my site that stored all the IPs that displayed it.

For this reason, both the Thunderbird that I use on my computer and the email client that I use on my android phone, do not load images by default, but only if I authorize them.

At least, this is the information in my possession, in case it is wrong, I will try to inquire about it.

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65 sats \ 0 replies \ @nichro 19h

I'll put it this way:

if there is every a digital bill of rights, the right to turn off read receipts and the right to "appear offline" anywhere should be in there

34 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 20h

I turn them off. I don’t like offering that information to people.

I do have friends that leave them on because they like people to know when they’re ignoring them lol

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 18h

Always on for all apps !

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 19h

I hate them and turn them off on anything I use.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @carter 5h

I like them. I know most of the people I talk to and its useful to know if they have seen it

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 8h

I used to turn them off, as i had a boss who loved to micromanage and would expect answers at any time of the day and week. However, I've actively started changing my dynamic with him, setting my boundaries, and I'm comfortable now him to see if I saw his message yet i did not answer yet.

As for social interactions, in Korea, it is not acceptable to see a message and not answer right away. But it is accepted to keep it as unread even when every knows you've already read it in stealth mode.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sox 8h

I personally don't but respect who disables them. It's just that IM for me has to be irl-like, if I don't want that I would use emails; also don't really care if I'm left on read, there's always a reason behind it.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @_Bubble_2009 9h

I disable it in emails, in messaging messages, however, I adjust it as I need.

I don't have WhatsApp, the program I use the most is Telegram. In Telegram, only acquaintances can see my status and read notification. But in Telegram, I can preview the message without reading it.

Consider then, that every now and then, I tell the app to mark all the chats read, so, I don't care how all this is considered by the interviewers.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @realBitcoinDog 16h

Yes definitely

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 17h

I feel conflicted about it. Its nice to know when someone reads your mesaage, but it can also be annoying if they dont answer back?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @PictureRoom 17h

Always

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 18h

"Person is typing" can be useful so that we don't talk at the same time or over each other

But read receipts imo has much less positives if any

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lazy_AMA 20h

It depends on personal choices. Different persons have different reasons for keeping them on.