In a short time, WhatsApp is going to be much more private. One of the biggest user requests is about to be released: hide the phone number in WhatsApp messages and new contacts. And there is still more. For example, new private contacts only for WhatsApp.
It is quite obvious that these new functions are intended to give the final blow to Telegram. One of the reasons why Telegram is so successful is that hide the phone number in chats. This allows you to join groups semi-anonymously, without having to reveal your mobile number.
Now WhatsApp will allow exactly this: when you send a message or give your contact to another person, You are not going to give your mobile number, but your username.
WhatsApp, increasingly private
Whether your family and friends have your cell phone to connect via WhatsApp, it doesn’t matter, because you probably want them to have it. The problem is when a store, a business, or a stranger wants to contact you on WhatsApp.
There is no choice but to reveal your mobile phone, and that is a privacy problem, if you only want to buy a product or contact a technical service. Because then they can use it to send you advertising or messages, call you, and even scam you.
WhatsApp is going to change this, allowing you to choose a username, which is the one that will be used to send messages or give your contact to another personwithout having to reveal your mobile number.
Other important news from WhatsApp is the possibility of saving new contacts only in WhatsApp. Until now it took the contacts from your mobile, and when you add new contacts, they are also added to your mobile.
Since your phone number is being unlinked, WhatsApp will also allow you to save new contacts on WhatsApp, but not on your mobile. Sometimes there are people you have on WhatsApp, but you don’t want them to be on your mobile.
Finally, launches the option of add contacts directly from your computerthrough WhatsApp Web or WhatsApp for Windows. Until now it could only be done from a mobile phone. These are things that have been on Telegram for years, and will make it more difficult for people to continue using the Russian platform.
As we see, WhatsApp’s news on privacy issues is very important. Especially the one that will finally hide the mobile number when we contact someone. Goal He has not given dates, but says it will be soon. Less to go!
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