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“WhatsApp Web for Android - a reasonable compromise?”
I am weak. I flounced off WhatsApp at the start of the pandemic due to Meta's shitty policies. Many of my friends made the move to Signal and some stuck with Telegram. But lots of them preferred WhatsApp and didn't want yet another inbox - especially one which was only connected to their weirdo privacy…
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@Edent I've left. Told everyone I was tired of the WMD sitting in the room staring at me.
But this is an interesting take.
@Edent interesting. I always thought the web interface to WhatsApp required the app on a phone and the phone be connected to the network because the webapp just tunneled to the phone and acted as a remote of sorts - so keeping things E2E encrypted to phone.
Looks like it must work more like a web based Signal desktop then 
or something worse... need to dig into the technicals behind this as this changes the entire threat model I had for WhatsApp
@Edent
Never used WhatsApp myself but to avoid it slurping up all your data I advise friends to isolate it either in a work profile using an app like shelter
https://gitea.angry.im/PeterCxy/Shelter
or better still use a Pixel with #GrapheneOS & isolate WhatsApp in a second user. Can enable notifications across user profiles
https://grapheneos.org/features#notification-forwarding
Either way the profile has its own Contacts app and WhatsApp can only see contacts you add there.
Been documenting profiles in this wiki
https://hub.libranet.de/wiki/and-priv-sec/wiki/user-profiles
