01-15-2021, 01:41 PM
Many experts have recommended in the past, and reiterated now that there are other similar services like Signal/Telegram which are supposedly more safer than WhatsApp and also more feature-rich.
I myself partially moved from WhatsApp to Signal however most of my contacts still use WhatsApp so I simply cannot leave WhatsApp for now...I like the UI and features of Signal yet still miss the old WhatsApp UI.
To me It feels like WhatsApp is not a trustable service not because of all the data they're collecting, but all the data that they're collecting which we haven't been told about. Even though WhatsApp declares that our chats will remain secure/private and only our device data will be used, I can't see any way through which "device data" will help much with the ads..
A friend of mine even experienced this personally, he talked about a specific product in a whatsapp chat, and later he was getting ads of that specific product on facebook too..
I myself partially moved from WhatsApp to Signal however most of my contacts still use WhatsApp so I simply cannot leave WhatsApp for now...I like the UI and features of Signal yet still miss the old WhatsApp UI.
To me It feels like WhatsApp is not a trustable service not because of all the data they're collecting, but all the data that they're collecting which we haven't been told about. Even though WhatsApp declares that our chats will remain secure/private and only our device data will be used, I can't see any way through which "device data" will help much with the ads..
A friend of mine even experienced this personally, he talked about a specific product in a whatsapp chat, and later he was getting ads of that specific product on facebook too..