Deep Mody
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They had valid point! Time to switch back to chithi.WOW... Thank you Delhi HC... I didn't know that earlier and thanks for opening my eyes...
They are still going to use the data we interacted with business accounts. Now almost all banks, shipping agencies, telcos like VoId, flight services, online travel agencies, etc use whatsapp for cc. Hell, even some of them send OTP via whatsapp (to avoid paying telcos). These data will be shared to the World's greatest voyeur cum Peeping Tom FB and his friends.
And Signal Messenger is no where under top 7?WhatsApp back on top in the app store.
At 30 Telegram is at 13.And Signal Messenger is no where under top 7?
And to add few of my friends, who like the status option feels WA is good for them.People who knows well about FB, has awareness of privacy, who never believe whatever sh!t gets forwarded in WA & FB already moved to Signal, sum of which comes to around 0.1% of population. But there are a whole lot of people (almost balance 99.9% of population) who believe all the stupid WA and FB forwards. These people are the asset of FB and burden for us -- the privacy conscious people, since more than 60% of our friends & family comes in this category only. Looks like, we have to continue our stupid old school / college & family chat groups in WA only.
WA has cunningly started this public privacy change announcement after getting all important cos to WA Business. Why won't the Businesses join them? It doesn't cost much money and cheaper than sending details using bulk sms service. Yes, stopping bulk sms in few years, is in the future plan for the businesses and that's where WA / FB Devil signed the deal successfully. Signal is too small to convince those businesses.
Moving to Signal will not change much. But leaving FB and IG accounts will have better results. I have deactivated FB account some 5 years back and never have IG account. Going to close WA in one of my number. The real problem will be when stupid businesses asks for WA numbers for sending non encrypted e-tickets and OTPs. In most of those cases, we can ask them to send via e-mail, saying no WA number (by using the mobile number without WA account).
But sadly, by that time - even few of the privacy conscious people will be ready to sacrifice privacy for the convenience and ready to deal with the Devil.