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[–] HasturInYellow 20 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I don't love being spied on and shit but that's a pretty basic requirement. You can probs just call people on the app.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

How is it a basic requirement? No apps should be able to make and manage phone calls apart from your caller app. Even WhatsApp does not need this, and apps that use cellular calling can just open the phone number in the caller app, as they do when e.g. you click on a number in chrome.

[–] bokherif 13 points 9 hours ago

Whatsapp does in fact need this to make calls