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  • The EU has identified WhatsApp as a gatekeeper in the messaging industry and has given it a few months to enable interoperability with other apps.
  • The EU's Digital Markets Act aims to promote fair competition and give consumers more options for alternative services.
  • WhatsApp has already begun working on interoperability with other apps, potentially allowing smaller players like Signal to compete more fairly.
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (8 children)

I have a whatsapp because my dad wanted to be able to call me without international long distance fees. He's called once and I get endless amounts of spam. I'll be seeing him in a couple of weeks, and I can hopefully switch him to LINE (what everyone uses here) and get rid of this app for all and get the last cancer of Meta out of my personal life.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

LINE is the worst for spam though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Really? I've gotten almost no spam in the last decade or so I've been using it. The one time I did, I think the account had been hacked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Back at you with whatsapp too. I still dislike it but not because it generates spam, at all. Do you mean that you get messaged by spammers though whatsapp? I only use it to chat with family memebers and I have no issues with notifications or anything. Maybe I have blocked some notifications but you can do it too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I get tons of random messages from people I don't know. A couple are recruiters who are finding my number on my CV, but most are just "hi sweety, do you have time to talk?" from random numbers all over the world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Huh, that means that your phone number was sold to call centers. There's a thing called the robison list in europe, idk if it works worldwide, where if you put your phone number in that list call centers can't legally call you. I've recieved zero spam since I put my number in that list, but it seems surprising that recruiters are contacting you through Whatsapp instead of calling you, emailing you or just sending you a message through LinkedIn, that's seems excessively aggressive.

Damn, I don't really have a solution besides marking them all as spam, but new numbers will keep coming so idk if there is a good solution, sadly. Just a note though, if you are receiving that much spam through whatsapp is noe because it's whatsapp specifically, it's because it's the most used app in europe and spammers try to contact numbers from their list though the common apps by default.

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