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  • It's not funny that the article doesn't mention that. Radio Free Europe is a part of the US propaganda machine, an article will be one-sided if it can affect the interests of the US.

  • I guess the stuff I was worried about was contact list sharing, Google Advertising ID, installed app list, and who knows what else a native app can access. Good to know that Graphene has that protection, I guess I'll worry less about using WA.

  • Look up “Beeper”. It's not about privacy, rather about convenience. They run bridges for you. Nothing went through the main app, but I had to authorize Beeper through WA as a separate session. It would die in 2 weeks with WA disabled, like I said, but I guess if I kept WA enabled this wouldn't have happened.

  • This summer? I disabled the WA app on my phone, though, so there was no background activity.

    My matrix app (an Element fork) had several bridges and multiple chats, I feel like they were all synching in the background. I haven't noticed that when I was at home, but when I was camping, battery going from 100% in the evening down to 70% in the morning was a problem.

  • I used a setup like that, but there were 2 things that I didn't like

    • I had to keep Whatsapp on my phone and open it every 2 weeks, because without it the bridge would just die (so why not just use it anyway?).
    • The app I had used a lot off battery, which was a dealbreaker for bike/backpacking trips.
  • You are talking about hypothetical situations in the organization with around 2694 maintainers. What I find interesting, is that no one in this thread thought it would be good to check if these 11 already contributed something harmful. Instead, it's just “good, we prevented a bad thing”.

    Anyway, your extreme take “ban all Russians because what if” goes much further than what happened in reality (“ban Russians working for companies under sanctions”): https://social.kernel.org/objects/860ef93c-229b-4070-8ee6-cb80d1f51337