Apparently Europe finally got Whatsapp to enable 3rd party chats making it easier to switch to more privacy friendly alternatives article However the only other app that currently works with it is “BirdyChat”??
Have anybody found any news about when serious alternatives will be integrated?
Signal should be subject to the same law. So I hope all it takes is someone making a bridge that forces Signal to open up as well.
Oh yeah, it would be great if Signal could send my messages unencrypted to Facebook. I imagine most of their users would love this kind of feature.
WhatsApp uses the same encryption protocol as Signal. Theoretically they should already be interoperable.
Except then the WhatsApp front end could hoover up all the data, or the report feature would upload the entire convo, or the long list of exteremely serious exploits WhatsApp has had
Which would that be?
The Signal Protocol.
State mandated XMPP. I didn’t know I’m cool with authoritarianism until now!
I don’t want to chat with people on WhatsApp with Signal. I don’t want Meta linking my metadata. Interoperability will only keep people from switching to better platforms
Yes this “solution” is just a bandaid to the problem which is capitalism. All this is going to do is make these corpos look like they are doing something good - but in the end, all of this is just a blur.
While I agree with your sentiment, no interoperability obviously hasn’t made people switch to better platforms either. The only difference is that without interoperability, I’m forced to still use WhatsApp to communicate with those unwilling / unable to switch.
I would disagree. I’ve gotten quite a few people in my life to use Signal
Seconded.
this part of the DMA only applies to “gatekeepers”, which are very large providers. the biggest barriers to being a gateway are (imo) turnover of > €7.5bn, 45m active monthly users in the EU