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moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

If you manage to make an account on WhatsApp and move it to waydroid, they’ll ban you.

Meta’s game is (meta)data collection and selling your data. They’ll delete your account if they can’t get all your phone’s data (eg if it’s an emulator then they can’t uniquely identify you)

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justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
the app doesn’t have access to any of my phones data now. it runs in an isolated environment once every two weeks for about a minute, otherwise I’m only using their web API. so they might ban me, but yeah, it’s not that i would care much ;)

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- moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  It has access to your phones fingerprint, which is then linked to all your other activity.
  
  It doesn’t need access to the phone data. All it needs is the fingerprint.
  
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  - justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    why would it have access to my fingerprint?
    
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    moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Because your phone gives it that info
    
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