fer0n@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year agoWhatsApp head confirms ads in the messaging app are still in the workswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square103fedilinkarrow-up1120arrow-down10
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minus-squareonlinepersona@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·1 year ago“Privacy conscious WhatsApp users” 😂 My sides. WhatsApp could flip on ads right now, right in the middle of messages and the majority wouldn’t switch.
minus-squareoffbyone@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoThey put ads in I’m switching. People can send me SMS for all I care
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoThere’d be at least some Whatsapp users that chose to use it because it’s end-to-end encrypted using Signal Protocol
minus-squareonlinepersona@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIf you record the screen of somebody typing, it doesn’t matter if what they’re sending is E2EE.
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoIf any popular messaging apps were recording the screen, it would have been discovered by now. Plenty of people are reverse engineering popular apps all the time.
“Privacy conscious WhatsApp users” 😂 My sides.
WhatsApp could flip on ads right now, right in the middle of messages and the majority wouldn’t switch.
They put ads in I’m switching. People can send me SMS for all I care
There’d be at least some Whatsapp users that chose to use it because it’s end-to-end encrypted using Signal Protocol
If you record the screen of somebody typing, it doesn’t matter if what they’re sending is E2EE.
If any popular messaging apps were recording the screen, it would have been discovered by now. Plenty of people are reverse engineering popular apps all the time.