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WhatsApp is terrible and you should not
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use it. If you do use it, you should
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delete it. WhatsApp is now officially
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running targeted ads and I'm urging you
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to leave it before it gets worse because
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it will go downhill from here very fast.
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How did we as a society come to accept a
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total and complete surrender of our
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social and private lives that is
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emotionless, antisocial, antihuman
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conglomerate overlord?
Is it an
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alternative to Facebook and the private
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sector?
Uh, yes, Senator. The average
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American uses eight different apps to
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communicate with their friends and stay
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in touch with people.
Liar. This person
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is a liar. Four of those apps are owned
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by him. Facebook, Instagram, Messenger,
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and WhatsApp.
Four of the top six of the
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mobile apps are are our social apps that
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and WhatsApp is by far the top mobile
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messaging app worldwide. Zuckerberg has
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always been a liar and he always got
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away with it.
I think it's more useful
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to like make things happen and then like
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apologize later. When he first bought
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WhatsApp for $22 billion, he promised
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that the app would never run ads. But it
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doesn't just end there. Zuckerberg is
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still lying directly in the statement
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about how they will be running these ads
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inside WhatsApp. These are supposed to
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be ads built with privacy in mind. But
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they are not. For now, the ads will be
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targeted based on your country, city,
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language, the channels you follow, and
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your ad interactions, which on its own
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is a uniquely profiled set of data. But
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this is a boiling the frog moment
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because everything inside WhatsApp is
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prepared to take it that next step
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further when quarterly earnings call for
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it. All the technology to use your
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WhatsApp data including your phone
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number and personally identifiable
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information is ready to be linked to
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your shadow advertising profile
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Zuckerberg secretly keeps on everybody
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whether they like it or not. Why would
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Zuckerberg ever be concerned with making
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privacy focused ad business? In the
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announcement, Zuckerberg makes a promise
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that they will never sell or share your
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phone number to advertisers. But don't
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fall for this manipulative workplay.
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Facebook has always been using your
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phone for targeted advertising. In fact,
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Facebook would be using your phone
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number for targeted ads, even if you
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provided it solely for second factor
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authentication to receive SMS codes when
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signing into your account from a new
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device. Facebook lied about the fact
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that this is how they were using
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people's phone numbers. They also did
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everything they could to hide the fact
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and keep users unaware. Until an
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academic investigation into Facebook's
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advertising network revealed that
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everyone's phone numbers become
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targetable by advertisers. Even in the
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case you never provided Facebook with
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your phone number, Meta could still gain
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access to it. How? Your friends that
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gave Facebook contact permissions would
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have uploaded your phone number to
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Facebook and Facebook would then use
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your phone number for targeted
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advertising without your permission or
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knowledge. Why do you think Facebook
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acquired WhatsApp for $22 billion to get
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the phone books of $1.5 billion people
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around the world? In WhatsApp, phone
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number registration is mandatory. You
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can't avoid giving Zuckerberg your phone
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number to use it. How long do you think
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Meta will exercise restraint and not
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move the goalposts to use your WhatsApp
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number for advertising, especially after
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years of repeatedly lying about using
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phone numbers for ads?
So that's why I
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believe that the future is private.
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Don't be duped again. WhatsApp
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absolutely cannot be trusted. If
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WhatsApp advertising was private, it
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would only be serving ads based on
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general interest. Like when you search
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for cars on DuckGo, you get ads for cars
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and not ads based on your account or
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your browser history. WhatsApp ads will
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be targeted because they will be using
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the same advertising network that
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Facebook is using. And that ad network
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is already allowing advertisers to
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target people's phone numbers if they
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have them. So if you use the same phone
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number for WhatsApp as you use on
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Facebook, even if it's just for security
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purposes, your data between WhatsApp and
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Facebook will be linked. Meta has
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already change WhatsApp's terms of
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service to allow for this phone number
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linking. Why would Zuckerberg go through
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all this effort to set this up
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technologically as well as legally if
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they never planned on actualizing it?
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Mind you, this was in preparation for
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years. Facebook bought WhatsApp in 2014.
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Two years later, WhatsApp began sharing
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data with Facebook by default with an
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option to opt out. Then another two
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years later, Facebook made another
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technical and legal update by deepening
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the integration with WhatsApp and
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removing the option to opt out of data
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sharing between the apps. Then another
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two years later, Zuckerberg announced
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WhatsApp will be finally running ads,
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which was postponed only due to
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backlash. But you see the pattern,
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right? It's boiling the frock slowly but
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surely moving the goal post one step at
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a time because Zuckerberg is counting on
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you always accepting a new update to
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their terms of service and their privacy
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policy. The ultimate goal of WhatsApp is
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for Zuckerberg to turn it into the
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ultimate surveillance capitalism
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machine. Before Facebook bought it,
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WhatsApp used to be funded by an annual
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subscription of 99 cents. Zuckerberg
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removed that fee and made the app
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completely free. Because under
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Zuckerberg's rule, we are not the users
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of Meta Apps. The real users paying for
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the service are advertisers. We are the
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product sold to the advertisers.
And we
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do not sell data to advertisers.
No, we
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absolutely are being sold to the
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advertisers. The quit proquo is
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surveillance as a service. Zuckerberg is
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not directly selling the information he
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gathers on us. That would be a stupid
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business decision. Rather, he's
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following us everywhere, even outside of
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WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram. The
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reach of his empire spans across the web
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with tracking pixels and hidden
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analytics code collecting your
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information from all the other apps you
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use and websites you visit. Zuckerberg
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has so much information on us. He knows
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what you buy and wear, even if it's in a
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brickandmortar store. No, Zuckerberg
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isn't selling off our data
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transactionally. He's surveilling all of
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us on behalf of advertisers and data
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brokers who then pay to use the data to
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spam us with ads. If you sign up for a
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mailing list, Zuckerberg will allow
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advertisers to use your email address to
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target you on Facebook. If you provided
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a retailer your phone number, Zuckerberg
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will let advertisers to reach you on
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WhatsApp. That's the end goal. WhatsApp
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is surveillance as a service. Its
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immense data inventory is by far the
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biggest out of any messaging app out
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there. Zuckerberg will always post that
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WhatsApp uses end to end encryption,
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which is only true because he didn't
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build it. It was built by Signal and
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implemented by the original WhatsApp
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team. But Zuckerberg since designed
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WhatsApp to collect so much metadata
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about how you use the service. They can
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pretty much predict what you were
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talking about with whom, when, and for
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how long, even if the content is
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encrypted. Zuckerberg can now use AI to
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analyze your messaging traffic and
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patterns and see when you're sending
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videos or messages to your friends. This
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sounds crazy, but I actually covered
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this in my previous video on traffic
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analysis on VPNs. And Zuckerberg's
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Empire is the most capable of achieving
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this new level of surveillance. They
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could combine their traffic analysis
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with all the data they gather from
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thirdparty websites you visit and apps
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you use. And by analyzing how you use
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all of those, they could predict what
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you're likely to be sharing and talking
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about with your friends on WhatsApp. The
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last lie I want to debunk is that
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WhatsApp is your only or the best
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option. It isn't. Zuckerberg is
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massively inflating the numbers of
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active users on his platforms. This has
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been proven by investigations that
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showed that when users are inactive,
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Meta will start sending fake alerts to
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people urging them to log back in for
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security reasons. When they do, Meta
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will register that as an active user to
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prove numbers to their shareholders. But
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people are definitely leaving his empire
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because they're fed up with it and
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because they know there are better
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options out there. So, I'm going to give
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you three. The ultimate best is Signal.
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In terms of user friendliness, it's as
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easy as using WhatsApp and it's free.
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The difference is that Signal is
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completely open source and it's a
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nonprofit. There's no advertising on
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Signal and Signal doesn't retain nor
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collect your metadata. It has all the
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features you need in a messaging app and
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all of them are private and secure. The
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second best option is Threma. Threma is
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based outside of Five Surveillance
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Alliance, so it doesn't cooperate with
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foreign governments. The service is
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paid, but it is more anonymous than
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Signal because you can easily use it
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without a phone number and without
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Google. The third best option is the
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session messenger. Session is also a
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nonprofit and it's trying to go a step
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further to protect your metadata through
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an anonymous overlay network. It doesn't
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have as many features as signal as of
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yet, but it's good that it exists
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because we do need more options. I also
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want to mention a hardcore option for
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the ultimate apocalypse dystopia, and
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that is the Brier messenger. Brier is so
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private and anonymous, it literally
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couldn't be taken down by governments.
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Even if the internet went down globally,
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Brier could still work over wireless
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networks and Bluetooth. Now feel free to
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start with signal and keep another
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option handy in case you want to play
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around with it. Three is also good if
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you want to have something that is
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outside of the United States. Now I
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understand that if you switch to Signal
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or Threma or whatever else, you may be
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the first among your friends. Tell them
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to start using Signal with you. If they
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are reluctant, make it a habit to not
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respond to them immediately. Make them
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wait a few hours or even days. Tell them
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to message you on Signal. And when they
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do, make it your priority to respond
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immediately. This way, you will be doing
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a little Pavlov experiment on your
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friends to get them to understand that
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it'll reach you better on Signal than
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anywhere else until they start
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communicating with you exclusively on
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Signal. If they still don't want to
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switch, them. Now, join my Patreon
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for my podcast and because you want to
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see me making more of these videos. I
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couldn't do this without your help. If
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you don't join my Patreon, I will
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