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Waze, a google owned app for the past 4 years, crashes because of the FB app.

WhatsApp, a Facebook owned app, will not give you read access to your own chat database - it’s encrypted. But they have an arrangement with Google where it’s will back up unencrypted to your Google account (though, Google won’t let you retrieve it ... only the WhatsApp app can)

Everything about this duopoly, their cooperation and lack of competition stinks to high heaven.

parent beagle3 6 years ago

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