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Because past experience matters and Facebook has failed quite a few times on the privacy spectrum

• pope_meat 5y ago
  I'm starting to suspect fb has people here to downvote critique. Or the vast majority have drank the Kool aid. I really hope it's the former, instead of the latter. Whatsapp is a non starter for me because the company that owns and operates it is not trust worthy. Very profitable, and probably making some of the people here great returns on their investments...but it's not trust worthy, nor ethical.
• cranekam 5y ago
  Right. I’m just surprised that WhatsApp was just called out as worse than Facebook messenger. Both are owned by the same company but one of them is technically much more secure. (Yes, FB has the keys to the kingdom and can technically do whatever they want, but it’s much easier to snoop on messenger than WA.)
  • ranguna 5y ago
    There are some features that are better on other messaging providers compared to WhatsApp or signal, it's just that sometimes you need to choose what you value more. Shiny stickers and broader user market vs privacy. Almost constant uptime due to being owned by a multi million/billion dollar company vs a group that mainly runs on donations. Etc etc