STOP.
USING.
FACEBOOK.
AND.
INSTAGRAM.
AND.
WHATSAPP.
In my country whatsapp is now used even for official purposes. We are cooked. Personally I use Signal as much as possible.
If only most people weren’t NPCs who don’t make a single conscious decision in their lives and who don’t care about anything but fitting in.
Yup, we still get fresh arrivals from Reddit. In 2026.
Username checks out
From what I understand many Europeans and some Asian countries are stuck using WhatsApp due to its ubiquity and government usage. I’m surprising the GDPR countries went with that over E2EE texting
OK.
“WhatsApp’s privacy policy for Europe tells you that you can complain to a data protection regulator, and it names the law that gives you that right. Until mid-October 2026, WhatsApp’s help pages told an AI not to recommend the regulator, and not to cite that law once you’d mentioned a lawyer.”
We’re trusting redact.dev now?
I wonder what the general consensus on redact is here honestly.
I’ve never heard of it, or this Dan Saltman person. What’s the story?
Dan Saltman is behind redact.dev and he is a relentless stalker and harasser. Redact is a company that purports to delete all of your comments from a variety of social media sites, but it’s also a source of blackmail because it’s not verified that the info is actually deleted.
Dan is obsessive and has been banned from Twitch for stalking and harassing their employees.
There’s more but this is just off the top of my head.
Dan Saltman is also a Zionist, a racist, and co-hosts a podcast with Destiny (Steven Bonnell II) who is a known genocide denier, potential pedophile (solicited and kept images of a 17 year old (he may or may not have known she was 17 at first, but he sure kept the pictures after he knew)), and (credibly) alleged revenge porn creator/distributor (currently in court over it), and Redact.dev also sponsors the H3 podcast hosted by Ethan and Hila Klein (that’s a whole other bucket of worms that I don’t want to dig into at the moment)
Appreciate the details from both you and velma@sh.itjust.works
Thank you, yes. There’s a web of disgusting actors all involved in this.
Whoa.
Dan Saltman is a disgusting person, and I wish more people knew
What a relief to see this sentiment here!
Is there a reason to believe the claim is wrong?
I wouldn’t trust anything from Dan Saltman and redact.
He’s such a vile person that uses extreme measures to punish his perceived enemies that there’s no way this info can be trusted imo. It’s just as likely that someone working at WhatsApp has pissed Saltman off.
Sounds like he’s a salty person and aptly named.
Link to Wired article for anyone who doesn’t want to deal with Redact
I’m pretty sure it’s paywalled but adblock takes care of it for me. If anyone needs an archive link let me know.
WIRED has reported on our findings. WhatsApp told WIRED that the notes were instructions for its support chatbot, the one people reach when they message WhatsApp Support with AI, and that they showed up in the pages because of a bug that has now been fixed. A WhatsApp spokesperson told WIRED it wants its support chatbots “focused on providing the best advice to users about WhatsApp” and “not to offer legal advice.”
Said the boy stuck with his hand in the cookie jar
