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WhatsApp to launch third-party chat integration in Europe soon (techcrunch.com)

submitted 5 days ago by Babalugats@feddit.uk to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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What's everyone's opinion on this? Is it a good or bad thing? It's good, people can ditch WhatsApp and might be easier to convince people to leave it behind altogether. Bad - I can't imagine that meta do anything without something being in it for them.

Could this potentially help meta scrape information from other messengers?

Could the likes of signal make it optional for the user, whether or not they want to be able to chat across the different messengers..

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[–] zzffyfajzkzhnsweqm@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I really hope this means matrix.org integration and Signal integration will finally allow me to ditch those apps and allow my family to do the same.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 days ago

My family will never ditch proprietary apps. It's either me having to have a complicated setup with multiple phones or profiles in grapheneos to talk to them, or being able to use a third-party app I can be ok with having on my main phone. Even if our communication is not private, I'd love to be able to just not have whatsapp installed in any way. That would be good for me.