Who will replace WhatsApp?
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Unfortunately I had to read in the news today that Facebook bought my beloved WhatsApp messenger. Although Facebook announced that nothing will change for WhatsApp users I still feel uncomfortable as Facebook is now capable of comparing a smartphone's contact details with the account relations within FB. As an alternative I find threema.ch interesting, do you know any other alternatives?
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Here's a link that might offer some answers to your question: http://www.techtipsworld.com/top-5-competitor-apps-whatsapp-2013/3496/
I haven't texted for decades and I never really liked it when I did. But with 450,000,000 users of WhatsApp, I see that many people disagree with me.
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As an alternative I find threema.ch interesting, do you know any other alternatives?
Ich benutze nach dieser Pleite auch Threema. Bin total zufrieden damit. Threema ist mehr als eine Alternative zu Whatsapp.
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I use also Threema after this defeat. Am totally happy with it. Threema is more than just an alternative to Whatsapp. -
Some open source alternatives:
Surespot, encrypted messenger
Telegram -
I wanna ser what will happen to whats before I do anything
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Well, according to Twitter most people seem to switch to Telegram, which is free and looks neat but for some paranoid reason rings my TANSTAAFL-bell.
In Germany people seem to switch to Threema, because major newspapers recommended it (some not even mentioning Telegram etc. - hey, a nice conspiracy theory here..).
And AFK, well, people don't really care
@hamilton.jerry:
Thanks for the link. I think your profile picture pretty well explains why you don't like texting: you're too busy secretly stealing Russian nuclear submarines@ArtH:
Bleibe auch erstmal bei Threema, es ist so schön James-Bond-like.@Krake:
Too bad for the WhatsApp-guy, he's gonna get fired…@ozoratsubasa: maybe the best descision
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Wieso hätte ich WhatsApp trauen sollen? Wieso soll ich nun Threema trauen?
Eine interessante Alternative scheint TextSecure zu sein.Bing Translation (thought it happens automagically ):
Why would I trust WhatsApp? Why should I trust now Threema?
An interesting alternative seems to be TextSecure. -
I see from Slashdot that Tor is making their own replacement for WhatsApp. Which is the sum total of my knowledge about either of them
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So far I've been using Viber
- not open source so you can't be sure it won't be bought by Google/MS/Amazon/whatever…
- it looks nice and is easy to use
- a lot of people I know use it
When there will be a good open source app with encryption (better yet secure p2p) I will switch to it.
PS. (thanks to Krake for suggested alternatives)
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i am using vider
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Call me retro, but i' using Skype And Groupme, IRC and Telegram. No Whatsapp for me, i never liked or really used it. Gross.
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@hamilton-jerry Everything online is a form of texting. You did it by posting in this thread. You do it when you email someone. Nobody is immune to texting! muahahahahaha....
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We should all go back to ICQ, which surprisingly still exists.
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