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You seem to be contradicting yourself - that is was never a good idea to believe their promise and pay for their chat service, but that also this problem would
by ubercow13 6y ago
You seem to be contradicting yourself - that is was never a good idea to believe their promise and pay for their chat service, but that also this problem would be solved if everyone paid for a chat service.
- jariel 6y agoThose are not contradictions. 1) A sale to an advertising company will result in WA data being used for Ad sales, there's no reason to believe otherwise. 2) Paid apps would be ideal for privacy, but I didn't imply that people were necessarily willing to pay for it. The problem frankly is not 'Facebook' it's us. We want 'all the privacy' for 'free'. If we paid a small amount, we could have privacy because there'd be an underlying supportable business model.
- ubercow13 6y agoRight but WhatsApp was a paid app. There is no reason to believe that paid apps are ideal for privacy - WhatsApp is the perfect counterexample. So we need a different solution, or direct payment at leasts needs to be one part of a larger solution.