How to get rid of Whatsapp? - Lemmy.ca
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Hello, It’s been a while since I started finding Whatsapp alternative, I found IRC, XMPP, Signal etc, however the thing is that I can’t convince other people to use Whatsapp, I can’t say that “ohh it’s bad for privacy” otherwise they will say “you are not a president, nobody cares about your messages”. also I don’t live in western country so I can’t just say “I don’t want to use Whatsapp” otherwise people will get mad saying “you are not a VIP, everyone uses whatsapp and you are not special”. however I found a way so that people won’t blame me for not using Whatsapp, I have to somehow get banned from Whatsapp and then when people ask “why don’t you use whatsapp” then I can say “ohh umm I don’t know it stopped working, you can find me on Signal”. that way people will be ready to install Signal to talk to me. what are your thoughts? is it even possible to get perma banned from Whatsapp?
  • whoareu@lemmy.caOP
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    1 day ago

    no, they will ask for proof, they will be like “ohh that’s weird, let me see if I can fix it”

    • Limonene@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      I can’t seem to upload images, but if you image-search for:

      “we’ve completed our review and found this account’s activity goes against whatsapp’s terms of service”

      You will find screenshots you can download and use as fake proof that you are banned.

      When I had to contact Facebook to get an account unlocked, they took about a month to respond to each email, and never did unlock the account no matter how much proof I sent them. I expect WhatsApp is similar, since it’s owned by the same company. So just say that they hardly respond, and they say things they’ve already said, ask you to try things you’ve already tried, or they ask for documents you’ve already sent them.

      Why were you banned? Maybe you accidentally signed in on a phishing page, and they sent spam using your account. Maybe you created an account, and your first action was to contact a person you hadn’t contacted before (obviously), and it was marked as spam. Maybe you signed up on an IP address previously used by a spam-sending datacenter (this happened a lot to me at my old house). Maybe your phone number was banned from WhatsApp before you got it, but you already gave it to too many people to be able to change it.

    • forrgott@lemm.ee
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      1 day ago

      If somebody said that to me, I’d do my best to find a polite way to tell them to fuck off.

      But, since you’re situation is, you know, not mine, can you get away with, “Oh, I deleted it, and I’m out of data right now,” or some similar kind of deflection?