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Let's not forget Signal, a competitor to WhatsApp.

• partiallypro 6y ago
  Does Signal have enough of a userbase for Facebook to even care about? I doubt it.
  • nanna 6y ago
    I don't really know about that, but the more important question is could it.
  • est31 6y ago
    Signal MAU is probably in the low two digit million range (probably because there are no public data), while Whatsapp MAU is 2 billion as of March [1]. So Signal has maybe 1% of Whatsapp's market share. [1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/260819/number-of-monthly-active-whatsapp-users/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/260819/number-of-monthly...
• encom 6y ago
  And Telegram.
• ylk 6y ago
  Signal apparently solved (parts of) that issue when they implemented it? from https://signal.org/blog/giphy-experiment/ https://signal.org/blog/giphy-experiment/: > Since communication is done via TLS all the way to GIPHY, the Signal service never sees the plaintext contents of what is transmitted or received. Since the TCP connection is proxied through the Signal service, GIPHY doesn’t know who issued the request. > While this does hide your IP address from GIPHY and your search terms from Signal, there are some caveats. The GIPHY service could use subtleties like TLS session resume or cache hits to try to correlate multiple requests as having come from the same client, even if they don’t know the origin. edit: more here https://signal.org/blog/signal-and-giphy-update/ https://signal.org/blog/signal-and-giphy-update/ previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12853248 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12853248
• crazyblob 6y ago
  Did they get bought or something