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matheusmoreira on Sept 27, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals

Not if you want to run WhatsApp or your bank's app.

toastal on Sept 27, 2023 [–]

Even the KaiOS support ended for WhatsApp. That’s not to say anyone should use that metadata-scraping, address-book-stealing service anyhow.

matheusmoreira on Sept 27, 2023 | [–]

If only I could avoid it. Everyone in my country uses WhatsApp for literally everything. My choices are: (1) using WhatsApp, or (2) being ostracized.

At least it has end-to-end encryption.

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