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Here in South Europe people mostly use Viber. Edit: I was very unaware about situation in Southern Europe as I've learned from this post... Most people in Croatia use Viber!

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[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With the Digital Market Act in the EU they’ll soon all be speaking to each other. Vestager is about to tear those messaging monopolies a new asshole!

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sounds good, until you realize that your data will then end up with Meta after you specifically left all of their services.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That’s a GDPR request away from deletion, at least in the EU (and for a while at least, the U.K.)

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I don't want them to have my data. It doesn't matter how easy it is to delete them. And basically every time someone scans their contacts I might get re-added to allow this cross functionality