"WhatsApp is to hand your phone number to Facebook", use @whispersystems Signal instead
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Requiring GCM means you are forcing users to give potential PII to Google, which is a heavy-handed way of violating privacy.
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What PII? The messages are empty. People would probably take this crowd more seriously if it didn't grossly exaggerate everything.
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Doesn't matter that messages are empty. Metadata. Leaks time, app ID, receiver device IDs, and is PII with associated G data
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Can you see how "Google knows when a background app receives a wakeup" is very different from "Signal hands your identity to Google?"
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and the combo of 1) refusing 3rd party client support, and 2) not providing a G-free APK leaves many out in the cold
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We don't feel we can support clients out of our control, but we'd love it if you proved us wrong. Let us know if we can help w/ setup
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I don't think anyone would expect you to actively support alternate clients, but letting them on the network is a good start
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Having them on the network is supporting them. If our users are communicating with them, then when they break our users are effected.
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