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Q: Whatever happened to our promised Signal - WhatsApp compatibility? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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The news first came in 2024, but it's been very quiet since.

I've been waiting this whole time to jettison WhatsApp from my phone.

Is it available only in some parts of the world? If so can I spoof it?

We know that adversarial interoperability works, so why have we not been able to make this work?

All else failing, are there any unofficial WhatsApp clients I can use to preserve my privacy?

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[–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

seems like malicious compliance to me yeah, we are open to different messengers - picks 2 that have 5 users between them.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    While I have no doubt Meta is doing the absolute minimum it can to comply, they're not allowed to pick and choose arbitrarily. They can have technical and security requirements, but we're not hearing from major players about how WhatsApp is refusing them access when they've asked.

    I'm inclined to think most of them either don't want to (Signal doesn't) or aren't in a position to make it work.

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