mishimaenjoyer @ mishimaenjoyer @kbin.social

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the moment some whatsapper is sending a message my way meta knows my phone number and the connection to the user. i'm not sure if i can stop this the moment the "feature" drops and most ppl would be ignorant to it in the first place. it's just another attack on privacy in favour of "convenience".

you call it "some tweaking" when in reality for 99,5% of android users it would be the same to tell them to get better performance on their cars if you just switch out the engine, do a custom paint job und replace the computer", just to have them finding out, it's not even possible because on most models the hood cannot be opened.

i don't want google or meta to have my data, that's why i don't use their messenger services and i don't want some brussles boomers enable them to get access to it.

misleading title. it's not "whatsapp working on third party chats", it's actually "meta is working on syphoning data off third party messenger software because european apperatschiks are high on lobbyist money".

this whole thing is peak boomer bureaucracy. they just want a one stop shop for data collection and backdoors, not understanding the technology behind it. i don't use whatsapp (even tho is makes me some kind of digital pariah in germanic europe) because i don't want my data processed by meta. if my signal is now "forced" into being readable - and collectable - by whatsapp, my data end up with meta. the european union is doing big tech a favour by forcing smaller messengers to be "compatible" with major ones.

imessage/messages would even be worse because it's not just the iphone's default messenger, but also deeply integrated into ipados, watchos and macos, opening those platforms, too. if all of this would just be an initiative for more openess, the eu could just force them all to integrate the new sms standard google is begging apple to implement for quite some time.

look behind the curtain.

iMessages automatically becomes a sms app with every other phone, so everyone with a phone capable of sending and reiciving text is able to contact you. No gatekeeping at all.

Im Austrian, so im basically forbidden to speak such heresies.

i still wait for the day when i can criticize the state of israel and some of it's policies without getting branded as an antisemite.

imagine getting first replaced by some kid out of a garage, then by indian code farms and now by ai developed by the grown up kids from said garage and trained by indian code farms.

i wonder what it will take until apple is sueing the living shit out of pegasus?

go back to /g/ you tr00n

modern (bt) devices usually have a built in battery that can be recharged via cable (or use the cable to connect the device to it's computer), so that issue is off the table, at least for better devices.

yeah, a bluetooth one and it's great.

at this point most iphone users are very much used to reicive images within imessage and have already forgotten that mms existed or are too young to actually ever had to deal with it, so to them it's just yet another picture.

you need to go outside, my friend - enjoy the sun, touch some grass!

Second for Threema.

Apple.

„I want people to care more about their privacy so I’m going to give away their data and seriously harming their privacy to tell them that i told them so“ - what kind of mental gymnastics is this?

don't forget the absence of easy to install addons! such a delight!

reddit is garbage and the problem isn't the lack of alternatives but that reddit culture is moving there with the tourists and migrants from reddit. it's like a social media human centipede.