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WhatsApp seems set on introducing ads, but they won't appear in your inbox
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this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2023
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There's one slight issue with Signal and it's that none of my contacts is using it and I'm not going to be the guy telling them to install it just so that they can talk to me.
In the EU by next year app communication protocols need to be compatible by law, it is mainly said that it would mean that whatsapp could communicate with telegram but I suppose it also should work with signal.
Should work pretty well even, since they use the same encryption protocol.
Won't happen though. Signal is very much against interoperability, and they're not big enough to be considered a gatekeeper that will be forced by law.
Fun fact I learned not long ago:
Even iMessage technically wouldn't count as a gatekeeper, since it is in fact below the usercount threshold the EU defined.
Signal is not required to be interoperable and the CEO also stated that they won't.
That's... Well, I guess I have zero incentive to try Signal then.
As Signal is open source, I guess someone could just fork it. It's not like anybody is really using it en masse as it is, and the kind of people who use it at the moment are also exactly the kind of people who would be happy to migrate to another service if they had a reason to.
Literally everyone in the UK uses WhatsApp, including 100% of my own extensive contacts. If I could download an open source rival app and still have full interoperability with WhatsApp users, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I've got Signal installed on my phone, but it's basically pristine and unused due to the lack of people to talk to. What's another app for the pile?
Not gonna lie I did this with all of my friends and family and most of them switched 🤣 But I completely get not wanting to go there!
You should. If they'll literally stop talking to you over an app choice how good of friends are they?
Aren't you doing the same thing to them in this case?