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> I use WhatsApp without allowing them access to my contacts. That appears to be impossible for WhatsApp on Android. Someone wanted me to install it a bit ago,
by zrm 7y ago
> I use WhatsApp without allowing them access to my contacts.
That appears to be impossible for WhatsApp on Android. Someone wanted me to install it a bit ago, I refused to give it access to my contacts and it refused to do anything else until I did.
So I deleted it and we used Signal instead.
- londons_explore 7y agoIt is possible on Android, but if you do, you can't initiate any conversation - the remote party has to speak first.
- zrm 7y agoWe did try that and it supposedly claimed to the other party that I didn't have the app installed. Not that that would have been a scalable solution anyway, since then no pair of people could use it unless one of them gave it all their contacts. Meanwhile the option remains available to use a different app that doesn't behave that way.