I was just asking how bad it is....

Open source doesn't mean it's secure and closed source doesn't mean it's not secure. Also, if it wasn't e2e encrypted, we would find out pretty much instantly since there are a lot of people who reverse engineering apps like WhatsApp, since zero-day exploits cost a lot of money, you know. So, personally, I would be pretty sure that WhatsApp is absolutely end-to-end encrypted.

Also, how is it a good idea to give a signal my contacts if it's not okay to give meta my contacts?

Also, if you don't accept this argument, then how do you know there's not a component in your phone that listens to everything you say that's above system level?...

That's why the contacts app exists....

or just fucking give them my contacts since pretty much everyone in my country has done it anyways, so they don't gain shit

yet ur ok with giving them ur contacts, bht with wa ur not

BRO SMS AIN'T BETTER THAN WHATSAPP IT HAS NO ENCRYPTION, PURE FANBOYISM

They just don't want another chat app on their phone, they just use wa for almost everything

they just said no, I respect that

EVERYONE IN MY COUNTRY USES WHATSAPP, YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT WA HERE YK...

I do, but I have like 50 PPL ON WHATSAPP, HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KEEP TRACK OF THEM

yup sadly it ain't

I just want to have their names instead of phone numbers....

because they don't care about privacy and I also need business associates on there...

how am I their friend if I'm forcing them to care about something they don't care about.

also they "want to give meta their data so that the algorithm keeps them on the app as long as possible", since they got nothing to do. also these friends are more like colleagues than anything else, but I need to keep up with them because of work

I do that too, but I got way too many ppl on wa and its hard to keep track of them.

gl keeping track of all the phone numbers...