• @[email protected]
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    262 months ago

    If this means I can deny WhatsApp access to my regular contacts and still have a decent user experience I’m all for it.

  • @[email protected]
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    182 months ago

    Oh good. It’s really annoying have my contacts in one place; better to have a subset of them on a proprietary app

    • @xodoh74984
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      52 months ago

      Or reinforce your walled garden and strengthen user lock-in?

      • @FourPacketsOfPeanuts
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        22 months ago

        While these are both certainly true it has also been annoying when I’ve added a regular contact but it doesn’t show up in WhatsApp straight away

  • Echo Dot
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    52 months ago

    Wait is this a feature that people want? Won’t that get confusing because you’ll have two different contact lists except the WhatsApp one will be a subset of the phone one.

    Also at this point I’ve got all my contacts sorted out so I’m not going to use the feature. This would have needed to have been added at the beginning.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      112 months ago

      It allows you to use WhatsApp without giving them full access to your contacts, so privacy wise I do want this feature

      • Echo Dot
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        22 months ago

        Right but they already have access now so closing the door after the horses bolted situation.

        • RubberDuck
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          22 months ago

          Well, time moves forward… so new users, replacement users, new contacts.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        Yeah. This entirely. I will not share out my contact list for it to be stolen abused or sold