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Anon degoogles his Samsung (slrpnk.net)
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crosspost from Enshitification@slrpnk.net

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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I like that in this scenario they still have to install Whatsapp to be able to phone on the phone.

Frankly, my stance to this is to just do what's convenient and deal with the rest. For big, meaningful change you need regulation, not user behavior.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    What do you mean? They can phone without, they install it to "communicate with boomeer relatives", as it's written.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It was hyperbole... but only just. Even most of my audio calls happen over Whatsapp these days. Certainly 100% of the texting.

    I know this is very region-dependent, so mileage may vary, but I did find it funny that it was acknowledged here despite the deliberately convoluted deep scrubbing depicted on the rest of the post. It's... less funny now that you made me explain it, though.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    OK, I've never used WhatsApp so I thought you meant that with these changes the regular call feature would be broken.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Oh, no, not at all. It's just that socially in some territories Whatsapp is incredibly ingrained. Even if you cut off every Meta app people will expect you to be reachable that way by default, so you kinda can't avoid it. I don't know if that was the point of the post, but it's the best bit, at least if you're in that kind of place.

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