WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update 📦

78    25 Jan 2021 03:25 by u/kek

Relevant guilds: +privacy +security

11 comments

19 u/None 25 Jan 2021 04:58
You get what you fucking deserve
13 u/Retrofire 25 Jan 2021 05:00
Their ultimate demise will be their complacency.
9 u/sHoCkErTuRbO 25 Jan 2021 04:06
no change in terms really. they always gave your data to Facebook.
3 u/None 25 Jan 2021 04:58
Better late than never.
9 u/electric_sheep 25 Jan 2021 06:35
Yup, not surprised. I've managed to convince most of my family to quit WhatsApp and use signal instead. I heard similar stories from friends.
4 u/Retrofire 25 Jan 2021 07:39
*nice*
5 u/insomniac 25 Jan 2021 08:17
Thank you for your service.
4 u/QuantumLegion 25 Jan 2021 05:28
Gosh, it's almost like people like their privacy.... how bourgeoise
4 u/doliu 25 Jan 2021 09:02
I wonder how many users are really making the move - the article doesn't say and I honestly never really thought that privacy was actually the main draw of WhatsApp. I thought people would just be using it because their friends were. If privacy was actually a valued commodity to WhatsApp's users, I would've imagined most of them would've split the second Facebook acquired the company. My general impression is that privacy, at least hitherto, hasn't been very high on the mind of the market at large. The most recent estimate of active users of WhatsApp I could find sat at 2 billion. Even if every single one of the 32.5 million new sign-ups to Telegram and Signal are WhatsApp exiles, it's still a drop in the bucket.
5 u/None 25 Jan 2021 09:24
>Even if every single one of the 32.5 million new sign-ups to Telegram and Signal are WhatsApp exiles, it's still a drop in the bucket. Whilst true, there is "The Dominance of the Stubborn Minority*". Most people are indifferent, but with 10's of millions bothering to seek alternatives, there is hope that the stubborn minority will have a network effect. Here's hoping, anyways. *by Nassim Taleb
2 u/doliu 25 Jan 2021 09:44
I hope so. Too often apathy rules in these kinds of markets. #deletefacebook springs to mind.