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And when Facebook is doing something evil, I actively blast them for it; in particular, I have been extremely vocal with everyone I know about many aspects of the Oculus account issue, which I consider to be extremely evil when combined with their closed store model and DRM setup with developer account revocation (etc. I am somewhat famous for being a broken record on some topics, so I will try to avoid going into too much depth ;P). Obviously, though, (but maybe not to you?!?) this is a completely unrelated issue to the WhatsApp "changes" this week: trying to use "Facebook is evil, so everything they do is evil" is not only ridiculously disingenuous--to the point of undermining the ability to make these kinds of arguments at all and still be taken seriously :(--but doesn't even satisfy basic questions like "ok, and do you also consistently use this frame with Apple and Google?" (both of whom are also evil to the point of being morally reprehensible). As for Matrix: they do not have a solution for metadata yet, and even have gone so far as to claim that maybe they will never figure it out (due to being a federated system). Your metadata just ends up getting semi-permanently logged on various machines, and there is nothing you can do about it at this time. AFAIK, Signal has implemented solutions to this (even, I believe, fixing the subtle thing I used to complain about where their server technically had a temporary in-memory metadata log for rate limiting). https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/2188 https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4565 (I have now provided a bit more quoted detail in this other comment, which i will link to rather than cause a lot of replication spam.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25687395 |