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I don't think people switch phones often enough for the warnings to be a nuisance or be ignored. I agree that a lot of people would be very confused when they

by morsch 10y ago

I don't think people switch phones often enough for the warnings to be a nuisance or be ignored. I agree that a lot of people would be very confused when they see the error, though, and while it's easy enough to explain even in layman's terms, I don't think it would help. I think that's it's totally fair to complain about WhatsApp, since the issue mentioned is separate from the more general problem you describe; they could easily have done it the way Signal does, and I suspect they opted to do it the way the do it for the same reason they don't have the security notifications on -- they don't want to deal with the confusion.

tripzilch 10y ago
> I don't think people switch phones often enough for the warnings to be a nuisance or be ignored. apparently in some countries they do and that's a reason to compromise the rest of the world.. just summarising how bizarre this excuse really is. make it an opt-in setting, in some countries reliable connectivity in a situation of frequently changing devices (the more I think about it, the more contrived it sounds) might be more important than privacy, but in others it very much isn't and the consequences for failing privacy are much worse than missing a message between swapping of devices. that's not a tradeoff you should get to make for everyone. the error message itself (I have it on) is not at all obtrusive btw, it's a friendly yellow (like the old Google ads) small type, which a user will either ignore or get a vague sense of unease about not being secure (which is exactly correct), I don't see how this can be further confusing.