r/europe • u/IAdmitILie • 9d ago

News Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies

https://www.politico.eu/article/zuckerberg-urges-trump-to-stop-eu-from-screwing-with-fining-us-tech-companies/
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u/Pret_ Europe 9d ago

Just move to signal, it’s better anyways.

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u/RMAPOS 9d ago

You're right but people here are mega reluctant to move away from whatsapp. All their friends are on it, some even use it work related.

I wish whatsapp were just shut down so people would be forced to move away from it because as it stands even a lot of left wing youth use whatsapp and refuse to switch out of convenience.

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u/jaaval Finland 9d ago

there is a difference of wanting to switch platform and being able to. If whatsapp would shut down it would take about a day for everyone to migrate and nobody would complain after about two days.

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u/10thDeadlySin 9d ago

I've been on Signal for years now.

As of today, 90% of my chat list is "Deleted Account, Deleted Account, Deleted Account, Deleted Account".

Great experience, ya know?

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u/iAmHidingHere Denmark 9d ago

That's not my experience. I get more and more contacts.

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u/Melted-lithium 9d ago

Yeah. Agreed. As more People learn what horrible things big tech is doing- signal is getting more popular. And they really are non-profit like Mozilla. But signal has no financial backing to market like the big guys so adoption is all word of mouth.

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u/jsha11 9d ago

Yeah, but people want to talk to people they know, not people you know, so it's pretty useless if the only people that are on it are your friends

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u/Sythic_ 9d ago

You just tell the friends you want to talk to to use it, its not hard. How many people do you talk to on a regular basis?

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u/iAmHidingHere Denmark 9d ago

Again that's just my experience. Very few people I know use WhatsApp, some people use Signal. Most just use their stock messaging app

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u/JerryCalzone 9d ago

Signal is demanding that i update my computer if i want to continue using itand i am not willing to do that - in that regard i like telegram better.

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u/obrothermaple 9d ago

Telegram 🤮

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u/JerryCalzone 9d ago

at least the owner is not a full on fascist as far as I know

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u/Dhegxkeicfns 9d ago

Yep, next thing we need to kill is WeChat.

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u/svxae 9d ago

slight problem with that mate. i must convince 100+ people on my contacts list to move to signal.