fer0n@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.org · 8 months 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-up27·8 months 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-up7·8 months agoThey put ads in I’m switching. People can send me SMS for all I care
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-28 months 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-up1·8 months agoIf you record the screen of somebody typing, it doesn’t matter if what they’re sending is E2EE.
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months 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.