• Something Burger 🍔
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    402 years ago

    WhatsApp: “you can now use email to access your account if you can’t use your phone for some reason”

    This community: “REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE”

    • lemmyvore
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      252 years ago

      The problem is that they’re reaching for emails in addition to phone numbers. Don’t think for a second they’re going to let you login with just email. They want email just to have yet another data metric to profile you with.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago
        • using an insecure medium like email to facillitate access to e2eencrypted messages. 1) you cant do that with Signal
    • @[email protected]
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      02 years ago

      People acting like a phone number isn’t 100x more personally identifiable than email are delusional. I have like 700 unique emails atm, and can create a new one within seconds. I only have a few numbers.