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by anonymars 7 days ago
WhatsApp insists on having access to your contact list. Pro-privacy, it ain't. It's still a Meta product.
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Cider9986 7 days ago
Perhaps not anymore [1] and they have usernames as well.

[1] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/no-longer-neccesary-to-s...

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inigyou 6 days ago
So does Signal.
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Cider9986 5 days ago
Signal keeps contacts in a privacy-preserving way and It doesn't demand access (i guess WhatsApp doesn't either).
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