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Why you might not want to use whatsapp anymore (www.slashgear.com)
submitted 1 year ago by muaveri to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I joined WhatsApp after many years of holding out, there was simply no other practical way to keep in touch with many people. The ways I mitigate the privacy concerns are:

  1. I got an international eSIM, for the purpose of cheap roaming abroad but since I now had this extra phone number not tied to my identity, I used it for WhatsApp.
  2. I installed WhatsApp using Island so it has access to just the contacts in the "work profile", that is, just people who have WhatsApp anyway.