alt Hacker Newsnone of those are blasting "encryption! only you can read your messages" as their main message and marketing.
those are literal public forums people go to expose themselves. you don't have a very good point.
none of those are blasting "encryption! only you can read your messages" as their main message and marketing.
those are literal public forums people go to expose themselves. you don't have a very good point.
Whatsapp is messaging-focused, but I'm willing to bet the quotation you just gave is not even 10% of the reason people choose to use it.
If I understand it correctly, people use it mainly because MMS was a dumpster fire and WA was the first platform which got critical mass in most countries, which it achieved by being both pretty good overall and by being cross-platform.
The encryption is a nice bonus that everybody likes, but you can't prove that is a primary or even major reason why plumbers in India, tour guides in Dubai, and school parent groups in the US all choose to communicate with it, personally and professionally. If anything, I feel like Signal must have by now poached a good number of the people whose main concern is "How encrypted is it?"
Also, Gmail is not a public forum and people don't mind that it's 'ad-ridden' either.