Lee Duna to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 7 months agoWhatsApp is one step closer to adding email address verificationwww.androidpolice.comexternal-linkmessage-square109fedilinkarrow-up1168arrow-down16
arrow-up1162arrow-down1external-linkWhatsApp is one step closer to adding email address verificationwww.androidpolice.comLee Duna to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 7 months agomessage-square109fedilink
minus-squarelemmyvorelinkfedilinkEnglish27•7 months 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-square@cheese_greater@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish-1•7 months ago using an insecure medium like email to facillitate access to e2eencrypted messages. 1) you cant do that with Signal
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.