Declaring Metapendence – WhatsApp

While I have never used WhatsApp, Meta’s messaging app (outside of Facebook Messenger, which is a different kettle of fish), there are many around the world who rely on it to communicate with friends, family, and even business partners and customers. WhatsApp boasts of its end-to-end encryption for user privacy, but the company has shared user data with Facebook and 3rd party providers, including user phone numbers. Now, WhatsApp is starting to include advertising as a way to monetize the […]

https://medi-nerd.com/2025/06/17/declaring-metapendence-whatsapp/

Very simple explanation of #privacy and #security from #SimplexChat

I think they got the right mix of peer to peer and client server architecture that we can depend on today without sacrficing a lot on usability.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl-QS0-qENw