MazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoWhatsApp can now hide your IP address during callswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up167arrow-down19
arrow-up158arrow-down1external-linkWhatsApp can now hide your IP address during callswww.theverge.comMazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square13fedilink
minus-squareJackGreenEarth@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35arrow-down1·1 year agoIf you care about privacy, you shouldn’t be using WhatsApp anyway. Not when matrix/signal exist.
minus-squareDasnap@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 year agoThe problem is when you’re the only one in your social group that does. No one I know wants to move somewhere else.
minus-squareroo@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year agoThe more of us that take the hit the fewer people just going along.
minus-squareKayn@dormi.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down2·1 year agoHow are you convincing your contacts to move from WhatsApp?
minus-squareJackGreenEarth@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·1 year agoI don’t have WhatsApp on my phone. If they want to talk to me they have to use something else. Most use Telegram.
minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoIn many cases you just wouldn’t be contacted lol
minus-squareJackGreenEarth@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoA few people I know won’t switch, but most actually do use something else. And I can contact anyone via SMS anyway
minus-squareDarkenLM@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·1 year agoOr the option that happens in practice: You are just forgotten and people stop contacting you. People don’t like change, and will resist it. How much depends on the person.
If you care about privacy, you shouldn’t be using WhatsApp anyway. Not when matrix/signal exist.
The problem is when you’re the only one in your social group that does. No one I know wants to move somewhere else.
The more of us that take the hit the fewer people just going along.
How are you convincing your contacts to move from WhatsApp?
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I don’t have WhatsApp on my phone. If they want to talk to me they have to use something else. Most use Telegram.
In many cases you just wouldn’t be contacted lol
A few people I know won’t switch, but most actually do use something else. And I can contact anyone via SMS anyway
Or the option that happens in practice: You are just forgotten and people stop contacting you.
People don’t like change, and will resist it. How much depends on the person.