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by throawayonthe 61 days ago
i WISH we weren't phoning with them anymore, but people keep trying to send me actual honest-to-god SMS in the year 2026, and collecting my phone number for everything including the hospital and expect me to not have non-contact calls blocked by default even though there are 7 spam calls a day
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ang_cire 61 days ago
In what world would I prefer to give someone access to me via a messaging app rather than a fully-async text SMS message? I don't even love that people can see if you've read their texts now.

Fully agree about phone calls though.

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hootz 60 days ago
I believe that in all of South America people exclusively use WhatsApp to communicate via text because SMS is only used for spam and bad 2FA. Companies are even using WhatsApp for 2FA now instead of SMS and the fact that americans use SMS is viewed as a joke.
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ang_cire 58 days ago
Ah yes, those hilarious US Americans, not wanting to trust all their chat communication to Meta...

Edit: literally just saw this article afterwards:

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/dubai-police-spied-private-wha...

UAE government getting access to private WhatsApp messages (presumably in conjunction with Meta).

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throawayonthe 49 days ago
what's more likely:

- whatsapp/signal encryption was broken without anyone noticing all in order to nab... some guy posting pictures of bomb damage

- someone snitched and the govt lied

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