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Fucking morons. I’ve been looking for a new apartment and messaging a ton of real estate agents lately, and WhatsApp just decided to block me for 'suspicious activity.' They already restricted my account a couple of days ago, and I almost missed an apartment viewing because of it. And I‘ve already done that for three moves before with zero issues. I live in a country where literally all communication with real estate agents happens on WhatsApp, so now I’ll have to go out tomorrow and get a whole new phone number if they don’t unblock me or Im gonna end up on the street. Fucking morons. Fuck you, Crapsapp, and your piece-of-shit messenger

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[–] nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

My take on this one (as a prospective home buyer) is that I don't want to have to deal with real estate agents at all, particularly if they demand to be paid on commission; When they're paid on commission, they benefit by being lazy and not attempting to negotiate down the price of the home. I home that real estate agents are automated away in the future.

[–] innermachine@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What country are u in that u have to go through whatsapp? Have only ever used my personal cell for stuff like this, if I have to download an app to do something you can bet I ain't doing it lol. If there's anything I have learned its that if it needs an app, it doesn't fucking work.

[–] bridgeburner@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Could be germany. WhatsApp is very widely used here, because back then in the olden days SMS flat rate was expensive. And WhatsApp was ideal, because it worked even on throttled data rates, so you could use it even if you ran out of data. So making it basically a free alternative to SMS.

[–] innermachine@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Interesting! I didn't even have a phone with data until after the unlimited minutes and texts were standard on most plans lol.

[–] JATtho@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I said whatsapp is not safe once. Glad (and horrified) to see I was correct. P2P encryption means nothing if the clients just report the data out via a side-channel once decrypted.

[–] japemasterBrad@programming.dev 7 points 10 hours ago

I'm hoping the age of self hosted chat platforms comes to fruition and I can get Meta the fuck out of my life, but it's currently a hard sell between by friends

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 23 hours ago

My 6 year old snap account for banned for "prohibited drug content" I'm Canadian and all I've ever done is share videos of me blazing to friends. Thankfully I have contact with the people that mattered via other means, still doesnt mean it doesn't suck

[–] cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

This is the fault if everyone who let monopolistic proprietary tech become important. Basically everyone.

So I'm just gonna laugh at this shit, because it was earned and I told you so.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago

This is the fault if everyone who let monopolistic proprietary tech become important. Basically everyone.

That includes you

[–] 5gruel@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I bet it is fun to ignore the reality of things to be an condescending asshole to people on the internet.

[–] cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Sorry I gave a shit too early and have memory retention better than a carnival goldfish.

Caught a lot of abuse trying to do my part to stop this, so my failure has some of the character of revenge. Suffer; you earned it.

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

So, let me make sure I got that right: you tried to convince people WhatsApp was bad. You obviously failed.

Will you take responsibility for your failure?

No?

So why should the OP do?? Do you have any clue about him promoting WA? For what we know, he could also have been one advocating for alternatives.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 3 points 9 hours ago

ignore the reality of things

The reality is that Meta is in a position of power that is a threat. Society is ignorant about it. A little bit condescencion from the high road should be considered helpful.

[–] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 44 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

That's actually infuriating. The fact that the real estate landscape is based on Whatsapp should just be illegal. Don't agree with whatsapp T&C? Go homeless. Do we need to remind who is whatsapp?

Same with cellular providers giving unlimited data on Whatsapp on a 25GB plan. Straight to jail.

[–] michaelalf@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Fuck Meta... What's wrong with email? You're free to choose your provider, and it's more convenient than a mess of WhatsApp messages. All communication I've had with real estate agents in Australia has been via email.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Second time* I saw Meta mentioned here, did Meta buy WhatsApp?

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 2 points 52 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 points 18 minutes ago

So uh, is Facebook messenger just Whatsapp with a different logo then? (Sorry don't use any of these apps so I would have never noticed, haha)

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Turns out, most of the globe is still charging out the ass for texting. It throws me off when hotels still closely guard their wifi and/or use access tokens.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 143 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Welp, here's the thing. Real estate agents typically like getting paid. So I figure if you tell them "Hey, I don't have whatsapp. Let's email or text instead.", they would do it, because a sale is a sale. They aren't agreeing to give anything up. And it's a very temporary situation from their perspective.

Also, I find it wild that meta (facebook), which owns whatsapp, controls the platform that an entire country relies on for any communication within an industry that dictates where you live. That is crazy. That feels like a lot of corruption must have had to happen for that to have happened.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 113 points 1 day ago (6 children)

WhatsApp has market share from the momentum gained in countries that didn’t have free/cheap SMS. I too find it wild that it’s the default in most of the world, and it’s super shady and super proprietary. The messaging that we have in the US is far far far from perfect, but at least it’s not Facebook Chat.

[–] Mannimarco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 72 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Also, that momentum was gained before whatsapp was bought by Facebook

Dumbfucks. Corporations will always be bought by worse corporations, and if you don't understand that, you deserve to suffer.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 day ago

Bingo, this is an anti-trust question

[–] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Plus in markets like Brazil, having unlimited use of WhatsApp services, including video calls, is a selling point for most cellular providers. You will have a data cap but could still video call your grandma on WhatsApp when you're out of data. Every business has their WhatsApp number posted out front and on their websites/social media.

For example, here is Claro, a large Brazilian phone company's cheapest current plan, 36GB of data but unlimited WhatsApp usage and 5GB for social media.

(Translated from Firefox)

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Yep! That's why net neutrality is so important.

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[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If we could just get people to use Signal.

[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

I've never used Whatsapp and never will do.
Team Signal since the time it was called Textsecure 🫡
Then again I don't rely on Whatsapp to stay housed 😐

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[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you have 100 applications per apartment and only one wants to do it via e-mail, then we both know what’s going to happen.

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[–] gzgz@lemmy.zip 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

In the country I live you can‘t pay to real estate agents (it‘s prohibited). They are getting paid by the landlords, plus the rental market is pretty scarce so usually they don‘t give a fuck about you as they have a ton of inquiries from other potential renters

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[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Since when did real estate parasites, I mean agents, stop taking phone calls?

I get 3 cold calls a day from agents asking if I want to sell.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

out here they moved into television ads. only way to shut them up is a mute button

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Different countries different communication networks. A while back Facebook was internet lots of countries because it was a way to get online in those places.

World is a weird place sometimes

[–] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Are you copy-pasting the same message across many chats? If so, try varying them a little.
Bullshit, I know.

Meta is changing how they price messages sent on the WhatsApp Business API (they'll start charging for every single message now) and lately they've gone haywire trying to ban unofficial WhatsApp Automation services.
If you try to use their crap even a little faster than the average Joe, you get caught in the crossfire.

If you send the same message across a couple contacts it's already enough to flag you (especially in your case, since you're likely sending messages to contacts you never spoken to before, right?)
And if you're using WhatsApp Web it's even worse.
And now that your account already got restricted once, it's likely to keep getting worse unless you can afford to not use WhatsApp for like, a week for your number to "cool down"

I too wish my country's communications wasn't so Intertwined with this garbage.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

I was looking at visiting Costa Rica for a bit, read that even restaurants were using WA for orders. I couldn't imagine relaying on Facebook's company policy for my business

[–] Leather@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Pal, you're a few decades late to the Facebook sucks conversation.

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[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I'm proud of you for just being mildly infuriated about this. I'd be pure rage monster. You've got the patience of a saint!

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[–] itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yep this has been happening to me as well. I really want everyone to start using Signal but trying to convince people is like pulling teeth. It's infuriating. WhatsApp fucking sucks.

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[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)

This is the reason you don't 'sign in with Google' or Meta or whatever.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is the reason digital infrastructure should be controlled by the commons. And punishment for misbehaving users should be decided by the state according to due process in a procedurally fair manner, not by corporations that seek to maximize profits.

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[–] nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 13 points 1 day ago

Spam their public corporate accounts with complaints, in public comments. That's the only way.

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