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[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Last I read, you can’t use WhatsApp without sharing your contacts. This helps Meta build its shadow profiles and keep tabs on folks not even using it. The metadata is also often just as valuable as the actual contents.

But eventually the “you’re the product” instance will dawn on ya.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Last I read, you can’t use WhatsApp without sharing your contacts. This helps Meta build its shadow profiles and keep tabs on folks not even using it. The metadata is also often just as valuable as the actual contents.

That's correct. When I use it (family is on it and it beats no encryption) I sandbox it, that's part of the app being terrible.