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1) Your contacts are saved elsewhere. 2) Yes, I delete emails I don't need anymore. Almost all WhatsApp content is not important. 3) I upload pictures/videos
by Fnoord 8y ago
1) Your contacts are saved elsewhere.
2) Yes, I delete emails I don't need anymore. Almost all WhatsApp content is not important.
3) I upload pictures/videos to my Nextcloud NAS after which I delete them. Goes automatically.
- OJFord 8y agoBut 1 and 2 are 'yes, I do want to keep things'. All I'm saying is WhatsApp (and similar) make that a pain, deliberately to try to lock you in, and it's annoying.
- Fnoord 8y agoWith regards to 1) they are simply saved elsewhere, in your Contacts. You can import/export that. It is a sacrifice of user-unfriendly security. They could've easily made a backup function which does not (solely) involve Google Drive. They opted not to. However there's an upside to this as well: if you delete that key, you're done for. If your discussion partner(s) do the same, the data between you and your discussion partners is also done for. I agree with you, but I don't find it difficult to work around it, and the previous solutions (plaintext, unencrypted logs) were terrible.