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  • Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    7 days ago

    I know a lot of people who use WhatsApp and I need it in a container for use on occasion. But fuck Microsoft and all the other tech companies colluding in thr or global cartel.

    Fediverse and Linux stands still and yet gets better and better by comparison.

  • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
    2·
    7 days ago

    Hey, is it true that the same encryption algorithm originated at Open Whisper Systems to be included in Signal.app. And so a big difference between Signal and Wahtsap is the lack of ads? Oh yeah, and the backdoor that Meta put in Shatswap.

  • trailee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    19·
    7 days ago

    This is a good time to refer back to a Forbes piece on Brian Acton from a few years back:

    The Facebook-WhatsApp pairing had been a head-scratcher from the start. Facebook has one of the world’s biggest advertising networks; Koum and Acton hated ads. Facebook’s added value for advertisers is how much it knows about its users; WhatsApp’s founders were pro-privacy zealots who felt their vaunted encryption had been integral to their nearly unprecedented global growth.

    This dissonance frustrated Zuckerberg. Facebook, Acton says, had decided to pursue two ways of making money from WhatsApp. First, by showing targeted ads in WhatsApp’s new Status feature, which Acton felt broke a social compact with its users. “Targeted advertising is what makes me unhappy,” he says. His motto at WhatsApp had been “No ads, no games, no gimmicks”—a direct contrast with a parent company that derived 98% of its revenue from advertising. Another motto had been “Take the time to get it right,” a stark contrast to “Move fast and break things.”

    Facebook also wanted to sell businesses tools to chat with WhatsApp users. Once businesses were on board, Facebook hoped to sell them analytics tools, too. The challenge was WhatsApp’s watertight end-to-end encryption, which stopped both WhatsApp and Facebook from reading messages. While Facebook didn’t plan to break the encryption, Acton says, its managers did question and “probe” ways to offer businesses analytical insights on WhatsApp users in an encrypted environment.

    Long live Signal!

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          7 days ago

          Thats my one complaint about Lemmy. It only gives content for like 3-4 hours. How am I supposed to take a shit for 7 hours at work, with such little content and comments???

          I feel like I read every comment on this site. I’m wrong, obviously, but thats how it feels.

          I love when people comment. You should comment 400x more everyday. Everyone should! Tell us everything! What’s your life story? How was your childhood? Did you have a bully? Did you punch them in the nose? Did you win the science fair? Did you play football? How were your college years? Did you drink 3 bottles of Bacardi 151, and wake up in Michigan in a hotel room filled with 7 lemurs, in a room paid for by Rick Morranis with zero explaination of how you even got to Michigan?

          FEED THE MACHINE!!! ATTENTION SPANS DWINDLE!!! ADHD IS REAL!!! OOOOHHHH!!! I SEE A PUPPY OUTSIDE!!!

          runs outside to play with a puppy before you can respond

          • BladeFederation@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            7 days ago

            That’s why I like it actually. It forces me to interact with the community, it’s more organic that way, and I need to eventually move in with my life instead of doom scroll. I get to the end and go “well that’s the end of the internet for a day or two”

          • Sturgist@lemmy.caEnglish
            3·
            7 days ago

            I usually switch to new after scrolling the first 5 or 6 posts. Just too lazy to switch my defaults