Comment by dmitrygr

13 hours ago

Because until today that IS what it meant! Are you claiming that "pray i do not change the deal further" is a sane approach?

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lxgr  13 hours ago

I just don’t think that’s a reasonable expectation of a telecommunications tool, so yeah, I think it’s a fair change well within the norms and expectations of an instant messenger.

You should get to control how/ to whom your data is distributed, but also requiring these recipients to only use software and services of your choosing seems excessive. Platform lock-in at this point seems like the much greater harm.

I could see the case for a small indicator in the contact details that they’re using a third-party client, but anything more (green bubbles?) would be counterproductive.

  • mlrtime  10 hours ago

    It's not requiring, thats the point of BirdyChat, right? You just have to opt-in to use it.

  • dmitrygr  12 hours ago

    i did not ask for green bubbles, nor did whatsapp implement that. they let me opt-in to communicate with questionable clients and i am here for it.

direwolf20  10 hours ago

The recipient is already using third-party code. I am using a Samsung OS, which is not from Meta, to see your messages. Do you object to this? I also have the YouTube PiP overlay layer in front of your messages.