I think read receipts solved this problem already. If you want someone to know when you open their messages, enable it. Disable it and they don’t find out. If y

I think read receipts solved this problem already. If you want someone to know when you open their messages, enable it. Disable it and they don’t find out. If you want to improve that setup, enable read receipts for a whitelist of contacts. People who you do want to notify when you open their message. I think a mistake was made when some messaging apps turned it into an opt-out and also made it punitive, in that opting out would mean that other people’s read receipts would be disabled. I don’t think it would be so bad if every single data point wasn’t hoovered up and sold to third parties. They’re probably using this read status feature to measure engagement and decide how to target more ads. They can infer a lot: who you respond to quickly, who you don’t... who is intimate and who is an acquaintance. Who is important, who isn’t.