What’s everyone’s opinion on this? Is it a good or bad thing? It’s good, people can ditch WhatsApp and might be easier to convince people to leave it behind altogether. Bad - I can’t imagine that meta do anything without something being in it for them.
Could this potentially help meta scrape information from other messengers?
Could the likes of signal make it optional for the user, whether or not they want to be able to chat across the different messengers…
I tried that too. But at some point I figured I communicate with most people over email and SMS. Which are objectively far worse technologies that any agency can use to spy on.
Especeally if we are comparing this to e2e whatsapp app. Even if it is backdoored, still less agencies have access to it as compred to SMS or email.
telecom is usually enceypted unless you get knocked down to lower g and I never suggested E-Mail or SMS.