Open source doesn’t mean it’s secure and closed source doesn’t mean it’s not secure. Also, if it wasn’t e2e encrypted, we would find out pretty much instantly since there are a lot of people who reverse engineering apps like WhatsApp, since zero-day exploits cost a lot of money, you know. So, personally, I would be pretty sure that WhatsApp is absolutely end-to-end encrypted.

Also, how is it a good idea to give a signal my contacts if it’s not okay to give meta my contacts?

Also, if you don’t accept this argument, then how do you know there’s not a component in your phone that listens to everything you say that’s above system level?..

That’s why the contacts app exists…

or just fucking give them my contacts since pretty much everyone in my country has done it anyways, so they don’t gain shit

yet ur ok with giving them ur contacts, bht with wa ur not

BRO SMS AIN’T BETTER THAN WHATSAPP IT HAS NO ENCRYPTION, PURE FANBOYISM

They just don’t want another chat app on their phone, they just use wa for almost everything

they just said no, I respect that

EVERYONE IN MY COUNTRY USES WHATSAPP, YOU CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT WA HERE YK…

I do, but I have like 50 PPL ON WHATSAPP, HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KEEP TRACK OF THEM

I just want to have their names instead of phone numbers…

I do that too, but I got way too many ppl on wa and its hard to keep track of them.

gl keeping track of all the phone numbers…

u can’t do that without giving it permission to all contacts

what about signal…

well most ppl in the EU use WhatsApp and give wa access to their contacts…

what about signal, is that illegal aswell?

what about signal, is that illegal aswell?

what about signal?

but everyone I know uses them and no, they’re not switching to signal…

yeah, how do you keep track of their names?

yeah, how do you keep track of their names?

what if I need to use it?

bro pretty much all of them use WhatsApp, let’s be real