I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason.

In my experience, when people find out my texts are green, they oftentimes would rather switch to a different platform altogether like Instagram or just not text at all.

Is this actually a deal-breaker in friendships out there?

  • corb3t@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    WhatsApp is great at marketing their e2ee, but nobody talks about the fact that so there have been so many backdoors out in the wild - they’re found annually. See: How Jeff Bezos’s photos were hacked.

    • BackStabbath@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      That’s fair. I’ll be honest when I say that I’m ok with sacrificing some privacy for convenience. Many people on this platform wouldn’t agree with that. Not using WhatsApp in my country basically isn’t an option unless you just want to be a loner that doesn’t contact anyone, and I’m not the type to call people all the time.