• bizarroland@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I mean, you could just uninstall it.

    WhatsApp is not needed by most people.

    And since facebook owns it, I believe, you know, you would be better off without them having access to all of your info.

    Then again, I also know that it’s pretty much the primary communication and money exchange app app throughout most of the world, so I understand why most people cannot get rid of it.

    But if you can, you should.

  • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    Their thrive on old habits, and it seems unlikely they’d care unless pieces like these are shared a lot and their target audience starts caring (and leaving). For a casual WA user, if WhatsApp, their default application is slow, then their PC is slow. Not to say that Meta could’ve easily uprooted what software development power it had before Covid and that WhatsApp dev team is just incapable of creating something new and slick or at least make their Electron wrapper app comparable to others’ in performance.

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    6 days ago

    I don’t care how many hoops I have to jump through to get things to work on Linux, I am never going back to microslop. Even trying to get my work laptop switched over. Windows is not worth it

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      4 days ago

      Windows desperately need a good sandboxing system like Flatpaks and Android apps. User apps should not be able to read all your data unless you authorize them

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      6 days ago

      It’s a competition between the app and the os, to see which can harvest the most data from the user. It is great!

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        6 days ago

        If your an extra good tracked boi, we will show you one feelgood story in the mix of a gazillion emotionally negative posts.