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Angostura on Sept 20, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Tell Us a Secret

WhatsApp requires you send the server the entirety of your contact list. No thanks.

eggsome on Sept 21, 2018 [–]

Not true.

I use WhatsApp without doing that (on iOS), but it does require other people to contact you first before you can have a conversation.

Angostura on Sept 23, 2018 | [–]

Really? So you don’t simply get this? :

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0xU-mTEbBSDtCRSgVUGGhp8Kw

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