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I'm trying to work out how the author came to the presumption that contact names would ever be private. As in, what other software are they using where that wou
by bityard 2y ago
I'm trying to work out how the author came to the presumption that contact names would ever be private. As in, what other software are they using where that would be a standard feature?
The closest I can come to is _maybe_ SMS where names never transit the system, only the phone numbers. So whatever name you associate to a number in your phone stays in your phone.
Email has certainly never worked that way.
- kaikai 2y agoMy phone is how I track most of my contacts, so it makes sense to me that someone would assume email contacts work the same way. I’ve was surprised by an email that revealed my saved contact name recently, and I used to work for an email company.
- n4r9 2y ago> what other software are they using where that would be a standard feature? In WhatsApp I can give a contact name to a number but I don't believe anyone else sees it. Even if I tag them using @ in a group chat - I suspect that everyone just sees the name that they've set for that contact.