blogging from me!
“WhatsApp Web for Android - a reasonable compromise?”
I am weak. I flounced off WhatsApp at the start of the pandemic due to Meta's shitty policies. Many of my friends made the move to Signal and some stuck with Telegram. But lots of them preferred WhatsApp and didn't want yet another inbox - especially one which was only connected to their weirdo privacy…
Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/11/whatsapp-web-for-android-a-reasonable-compromise/
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@Edent
Never used WhatsApp myself but to avoid it slurping up all your data I advise friends to isolate it either in a work profile using an app like shelter
https://gitea.angry.im/PeterCxy/Shelter
or better still use a Pixel with #GrapheneOS & isolate WhatsApp in a second user. Can enable notifications across user profiles
https://grapheneos.org/features#notification-forwarding
Either way the profile has its own Contacts app and WhatsApp can only see contacts you add there.
Been documenting profiles in this wiki
https://hub.libranet.de/wiki/and-priv-sec/wiki/user-profiles