On: Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone

[contriban]

It doesn’t. WhatsApp is an app on your phone. That’s it. It can’t be anything else anywhere else, it’s how it’s been designed.

[woutr_be → contriban]

That’s exactly my point, I can’t justify deleting it.

[slothtrop → woutr_be]

Some people shift to Telegram / Signal if they can get their friends to install them.

[Proziam → slothtrop]

I did this. Shifted the whole family to Telegram, and am hoping Signal catches up so we can switch to that.

I do have a few members of the family on Signal already though. They're just the ones that don't mind giving up stickers and the nice interface

[ViViDboarder → Proziam]

Signal has had stickers for over a year now. https://signal.org/blog/make-privacy-stick/

About the time they added stickers, and message replies my friends group chats switched over.

[Proziam → ViViDboarder]

The feature exists but the overall quality and variety just aren't the same. For whatever reason, people get comfortable with the familiar and even a cosmetic change creates a barrier.

I have no doubt signal will catch up though.