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Who else is protesting by still refusing the new terms and conditions?!
by teekert 5y ago
Who else is protesting by still refusing the new terms and conditions?!
- kilburn 5y agoI still do. Furthermore, at this point I'm having two questions about it: 1. The notice clearly said that if I didn't accept I wouldn't be able to continue to use WhatsApp after some date in the past (I don't remember it exactly). This is clearly not true. Wouldn't this fact be grounds for invalidation of all consents they gathered before? 2. At this point I must have declined accepting at least 100 times. Shouldn't it be required to have a "no, never" option in there? In its absence, shouldn't I be able to make the case that the one time I click on "agree" it was by mistake? How is this method of agreement valid whatsoever?
- saddlerustle 5y agoWhy? The only thing that actually changed in the new privacy policy is allowing business messaging.
- disgruntledphd2 5y agoPersonally, I'm just refusing to accept it to see what (if anything) they'll actually do about it.
- kilburn 5y agoThat's what they want you to believe. The other point is: > Additional Information On How We Handle Your Data. Our updated Terms and Privacy Policy provide more information on how we process your data, and our commitment to privacy. How nice! However, this is specifically targeted at GDPR-covered users. GDPR won't allow them to do anything that is not explained (and hence "consented" to by the user). To me, the logical conclusion is that their lawyers went "we can't do XXX, YYY, ZZZ unless we explain them explicitly". Then their marketing team spun it up as "look at how nice we are". The reality is that they wouldn't explain shit unless they absolutely need to. Since they didn't explain before, I'm pretty sure there are things they can't (legally) do with my information under the previous agreement that they would be able to (legally) do with the new one.
- ChrisKnott 5y agoIt's become muscle memory for me, at this point I'm just interested to see what eventually happens.
- WA 5y agoMe too. Soft prediction: I will accidentally hit Accept because I’m too fast when switching apps and the popup opens.
- rpadovani 5y agoTwice a day, more or less :-D But I discovered my SO is doing as well, not because she really cares, but because she is used to dismissing any popup she sees - I am curious how many people haven't accepted yet just because they have a muscle memory to close pop-ups that get in their way
- teekert 5y agoYeah, and Signal bothers the people I converted with their pincode settings. People leave it open and dismiss it. I try do disable it for them entirely, it messes with the experience. Now it's like "both apps have pop ups to dismiss"
- shultays 5y ago"Dismiss this pop up to agree our new terms!"
- teekert 5y agohaha, yeah, swap the dismiss and accept button 1 time, "by accident" and boom, a movement is killed.
- anaganisk 5y agoOr just the age old technique, By continuing to use our app you accept the terms and conditions.
- littlestymaar 5y agoThis technique is explicitly disallowed by GDPR though, so if you care this little you could dismiss the pop-up altogether and just collect the data anyway (and then wait for your fine eventually if you get caught).
- rpadovani 5y agoI would 100% fail for it in WhatsApp right now - too many months I click that X
- q-rews 5y agoSurely it’s getting annoying though.
- teekert 5y agoIt really is, we should build a website and forum to support each other.
- checkyoursudo 5y agoNearly every day, my phone battery drains enough to ask me if I want to put it into low power mode. Almost every time, I press close instead of low power mode. My muscle memory is so strong that, even though I usually indeed do want to the phone into low power mode, I hit close instead. It's amazing what we can habituate with little or no annoyance.
- nullify88 5y agoI'm waiting for when they switch the button positions and I agree to the new terms accidentally due to muscle memory.
- Tijdreiziger 5y agoSsshhh, don't give them any ideas!
- sleavey 5y agoI am. But I soon want to reinstall my phone's operating system. If I reinstall WhatsApp I'm sure they will force me to accept the terms at that point.
- pedrocr 5y agoI assumed as much but after changing phones I was surprised I still get the banner even after newly accepting the initial conditions when installing the app. Fair play to them that it's actually a per-account thing that's not automatically accepted when you install the app.
- lazyweb 5y agoOn Android, if you're rooted, you can always reinstall whatsapp from a backup through "Titanium Backup". That's what I did while switching phones a few months ago.
- Hamuko 5y agoNot me. I uninstalled a while ago.