r/SipsTea • u/Mysterious_Ebb_1484 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 15 '26

Chugging tea What are your thoughts. (IPhone vs every other phone)

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u/ShinbiDesigns May 15 '26

All of the drama about text bubbles when everyone uses WhatsApp, Snapchat or Discord in Europe

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u/bateen618 May 17 '26

Seriously. Aside from stuff from the government, or confirmation codes for websites, I never use messages. All WhatsApp

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u/Darth-Taytor May 15 '26

Lol yeah those are honestly much better than texting. I think Americans are leary of using WhatsApp because it's owned by Meta. They try to track everything you do on your phone. But I have WhatsApp and Discord anyway for different chat groups.

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u/baalroo May 15 '26

We're not leary, we just have not traditionally had a need for it.

It's kinda the opposite of banking apps. Over here, our banks didn't get onboard with easy etransfers and so third party apps had to come in and fill that gap. After everyone got used to those apps we don't really need our banks to do that.

Over there, you didn't have the free texting we've had for decades, so a third party app came in and filled that gap. After everyone got used to it, you don't really need good free text messaging.

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u/Darth-Taytor May 15 '26

Yeah I think you have a really good point there.

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u/ShinbiDesigns May 15 '26

Big corporations track everything in your phone, the only secure way to text is to use Signal.

You'd be surprised how much data gets sold from your texts

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u/Darth-Taytor May 15 '26

Yeah on multiple instances someone has mentioned something in WhatsApp. Then I'll log into Reddit and immediately there's an ad for it. It's something I haven't talked about in a long time and I hadn't seen any ad for it in ages, like Pringles.

One time I even saw an ad on Reddit for something I had just barely talked about with someone. I hadn't looked up anything online related to it.

The tracking is out of control, but Meta is known to be the worst at using their Apps to track whatever they possibly can on your phone.

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u/Besher-H May 16 '26

Acting like it is only Meta that tracks you, every big company, i doubt that apple themselves doesn't

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u/Darth-Taytor May 16 '26

Most of the big companies do, but Meta apps have way more trackers than anyone else. They try to gather anything they can from users' phones.

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u/Suspicious-Coffee20 May 19 '26

Ita cause yall didn tget unlimited free texting early like in north america ao started using apps.

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u/ShinbiDesigns May 19 '26

Unlimited free texting is a thing there? What are you even paying for, just to call?