>But things are about to change. On Tuesday, the EU Parliament passed a law that forces WhatsApp to open up to other messenger services. In the future, anyone who has Threema on their cell phone, for example, will be able to send WhatsApp users a message without having to download WhatsApp themselves. The principle is called “interoperability.”
>WhatsApp users will then receive a request asking whether they want to accept a message from a Threema user. “This changes the entire messaging market,” says Breyer. “For the first time, users have a real choice of which messenger they want to use. Alternative messengers get a chance to compete with the top dog, WhatsApp.”
>WhatsApp had introduced new terms and conditions a year ago and shared data with Facebook. At the time, many users wanted to switch to Threema or Signal. But because they would then have been cut off from their friends, many stayed with WhatsApp anyway.
>There is a transition period of two years for WhatsApp and Facebook, and even four years for WhatsApp group chats.
kek, shouldn't have left Boris is busy getting rid of GDPR as we speak
Josiah Fisher
HAHA GET FUCKED BREXITBONGER WHEN YOU CRAWL BACK TO THE EU IN FIVE YEARS WE'RE UNIFYING IRELAND
Daniel Bailey
>There is a transition period of two years for WhatsApp and Facebook, and even four years for WhatsApp group chats Just think of the poor FAGMAN, surely you can't expect them to make this change in only a year
Dylan Baker
I never said we should have. I believe my post >implied my dissatisfaction with the situation.
Irish unity is a matter between the North and Republic only.
Hunter Torres
You know, poor trillion dollar companies can't even make good products to begin with (*cough* Teams *cough*)
Jordan Lee
cant tell if this is based or not. but you can be fucking SURE it will create a new GDRP bullshit popup you will need to click with the force of a thousand suns on every fucking app you use now.
Imagine if MS got told they had to make Teams interoperable. Imagine what a shitheap the backend would be. Imagine the chaos at MS while they implement it. Imagine the smell.
Ayden Jackson
>Don't use privacy invasive apps >Don't get tracking consent popups >Profit
Cameron Jenkins
this mean open source whatsapp 3rd party clients, right? RIGHT?
Ryder Long
Imagine chatting with Discord, Skype, Teams & iMessage normies from Signal.
Thomas Sullivan
why is it that eu is based in terms of technological policy but cringe in terms of everything else?
Isaac Gray
Finally, faceberg will be able to spy on threema users and it'll be even harder to convince people to stop using WhatsApp. Also, WhatsApp isn't going to have to change shit, they'll instead force all other messengers to do things their way. You all got played.
Hunter Gray
>why is it that eu is based in terms of technological policy because we don't like being spied by each other >but cringe in terms of everything else? what?
Camden Clark
How did you come to these conclusions? >threema user sends whatsapp message >faceberg knows about it yes, obviously. but also >threema user does anything else >faceberg doesn't know a thing
>Also, WhatsApp isn't going to have to change shit, they'll instead force all other messengers to do things their way. that's literally the opposite of what's going on here
Hudson Morris
Based >Chatcontrol Oh well who gives a fuck about this
Aiden Collins
>american is furious about someone being forced to care about his personal data usage amis have twisted notion of freedom
Thomas King
i could literally give two fucks, your blocking my access to your shitty website that im blocking literally everything on anyways including those shitty cookies you think so highly of.
Fuck you and your popup forced bullshit.
Adam James
americans aren't the brightest, are they?
Gavin Adams
>i could literally give two fucks Could you?
Ryan Morgan
Back in the day we had pidgin, it pretty much did that, the thing acted as a wrapper for multiple chatroom sites/protocols, which required you to login for each thing, i.e AOL messenger, MSN messenger, irc, Yahoo... I suppose it would be almost like having an internet browser open with multiple tabs. Something tells me this will lead to security issues down the road.
Landon Thompson
>He doesn't use the EasyList Cookie blocklist
Xavier Fisher
EU: No need to innovate, we just use our mass of consooomers to pressure companies in doing what we want.
