Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoWhatsApp is one step closer to adding email address verificationwww.androidpolice.comexternal-linkmessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up1143arrow-down16
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minus-squareSomething Burger 🍔@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38arrow-down10·1 year agoWhatsApp: “you can now use email to access your account if you can’t use your phone for some reason” This community: “REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE”
minus-squarelemmyvore@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28arrow-down1·1 year agoThe 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.
minus-squarecheese_greater@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·1 year ago using an insecure medium like email to facillitate access to e2eencrypted messages. 1) you cant do that with Signal
minus-squareumbrella@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 year agoMy reeeing depends on if they are going to make it mandatory. And I have a feeling they are coming full force on the enshittification bandwagon.
WhatsApp: “you can now use email to access your account if you can’t use your phone for some reason”
This community: “REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE”
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.
My reeeing depends on if they are going to make it mandatory. And I have a feeling they are coming full force on the enshittification bandwagon.