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Works for me. But I can’t keep hundreds of numbers in my head anymore (though I did in my teens), and I hate constantly switching to my contacts - not to mentio
by beagle3 7y ago
Works for me. But I can’t keep hundreds of numbers in my head anymore (though I did in my teens), and I hate constantly switching to my contacts - not to mention search by phone number to see who just WhatsApped me just doesn’t work well.
My solution is that I bought a $80-new Android phone (2nd hand would be $20 or less) which I keep at home on WiFi, and WhatsApp web from my iPhone to it. Works perfectly, except notifications, which is somewhat of a beature.
Small price to pay for keeping my main phone Facebook free.
- paulcarroty 7y ago> I bought a $80-new Android phone (2nd hand would be $20 or less) You just paid money for pushing your personal data to Google. I use clear Android-x86 VM with wiped Google Services for this, maybe several times for year.
- beagle3 7y agoNot connected to google, WhatsApp sideloaded (though cannot guarantee google doesn’t get a copy...). The only data on this phone are contacts who have contacted me on WhatsApp; it has about 50 contacts compared to my main phone that has an order of magnitude more, and which ttbomk no FANG has access to or a copy of; the war is lost though, because every message/call has at least one more party and almost all of them do give all that info away to google, Facebook and Microsoft (giving Skype access to contacts) Alas, where I live, NOT using WhatsApp would put me at a much worse disadvantage than the $80 I paid.