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WhatsApp is making a massive change to the way it saves your contacts (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

I'd like to think it's a user benefit, but I mean, historically.... it wont't be. (Yes they claim it's encrypted, but I don't trust Meta one bit to still not have some way to use this data for their benefit.)

Eh, I would actually believe this is purely user driven. Their solution doesn't sound like it will work differently in Europe vs the rest of the world, and if their claims about it being encrypted and only user accessible are true, there is fundamentally no benefit to them from a data harvesting stand point.

They also face a lot of competition in the messaging space, moreso than any of their other apps, which will generally incentivize them to be more user focused.