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2012-07-11
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abchobby , you must add the contact in the international phone number format...as in +COUNTRYCODE before the number..
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2012-07-12
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@ Apeldoorn area, Netherlands
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Originally Posted by abchobby
For example your friends number would be:
In fact I can't see all the contacts in my address book who have WhatsApp
I'm waitingand thank's a lot!!
0612345678
Then you would have to change this to:
+39612345678
Not sure if this will change in the future when contact sync is made. I'll leave that for Scorpius heh.
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2012-07-12
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@ milano
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Originally Posted by kayaman_00
oh... right!!
abchobby , you must add the contact in the international phone number format...as in +COUNTRYCODE before the number..
I've read about it but I forgot to modify my contact number!!! thank's for reminder me!!!
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2012-07-12
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@ milano
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Originally Posted by Wreck
I've add the international country code and now I'll see all my contacts!!
For example your friends number would be:
0612345678
Then you would have to change this to:
+39612345678
Not sure if this will change in the future when contact sync is made. I'll leave that for Scorpius heh.
thank's
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2012-07-12
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@ Bilbao (Basque Country [Spain])
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Originally Posted by Scorpius
I know, i found ruby script for asking about a range of numbers. Whatsapp Inc. does save that data as said in privacy policy, and all the data obtained could be selled in a future. That's a privacy violation and Whatsapp might be banned in Spain because here, Whatsapp privacy policy is incompatible with privacy laws. No way to relate them? I suppose they have a great tree of human mobile relationships.
Yappari doesn't upload any of your private information to Whatsapp servers. It just queries "what is the status of number +x?" and the server says "status is y" or "user not registered". You can even do it manually using curl or wget. That's not a violation of your privacy, Whatsapp can't save the numbers there's not way to relate them.
Originally Posted by Scorpius
Maybe, maybe not. I want to do my best respecting my and others privacy. I know my friends don't have that respect for it, but if they throw themselves from a window, I won't do XD.
And like I told you before each one of your 1161 contacts is the contact of somebody else that use Whatsapp, which is querying those numbers anyway.
Originally Posted by Scorpius
Because I can use a number not easily related to me (first I tried to register with an absolutely fake number) and add only contacts I knwo use it. If in a future my N900 broke and I have to get and Android, I won't use the oficial Whatsapp client. I prefer to pay for SMSs and continue using only Google-talk (That's what I done until Whatsapp Java por arrived to N900, while friends tell me to buy a new smartphone).
Also and as a final note, if you are really making a stand that Whatsapp Inc is violating your privacy then why are you using it? That's double moral standard what you're trying to do (cheating, registering with a fake number, etc).
Originally Posted by Scorpius
I tried, I even argued in various forums about that and another 15 reasons for whatsapp being worse than other Instant Messengers, being maybe google-talk the better.
You should try to convince other users not to use it, instead of trying to cheat Whatsapp. Don't you think?
But sadly most of my android-user-friends even deactivated google-talk and only use whatsapp.
Last edited by malkavian; 2012-07-12 at 10:24.
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2012-07-12
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@ The Netherlands
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You are scared of privacy of whatsapp and yet you use android. :O
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N900 loaded with:
CSSU-T (Thumb)
720p recording,
Pierogi, Lanterne, Cooktimer, Frogatto
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N900 loaded with:
CSSU-T (Thumb)
720p recording,
Pierogi, Lanterne, Cooktimer, Frogatto
N9 16GB loaded with:
Kernel-Plus
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[TCPdump & libpcap | ngrep]
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donate
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2012-07-12
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@ Bilbao (Basque Country [Spain])
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Originally Posted by mr_pingu
I don't use Android, selected Maemo
You are scared of privacy of whatsapp and yet you use android. :O
Did you read google privacy policy? I don't know about Android particular privacy (if it is different from Google general's one). Which are the privacy problems you see on Android?
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2012-07-12
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@ Trinidad
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malkavian, I think you should start a new thread against Whatsapp and stop whining about their privacy policy on any developer thread you can find!!!
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2012-07-12
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@malkavian if you want to use Whatsapp you should comply to their policy. I should not give you a way to circumvent it. If you feel the friends pressure, then you should just give up.
If I add a way to avoid sync, it'll be just because bandwidth utilization (which is kinda big) not because a privacy violation. There's no privacy violation, Whatsapp is not wrong here, YOU are. The privacy policy says they save the status information, that's it. They are NOT saving who's querying who.
I just don't feel right when you say you want to use Whatsapp under YOUR conditions and not theirs. What's that? If you are a man of principles just don't use it. I'm a man of principles and I don't really want to give you a way to use the service they are giving you for FREE under conditions different than the ones Whatsapp Inc proposed.
If you're concerned about privacy then don't use a cellphone, because every time you make a call your cell phone company will save that number as your contact. Don't use the Internet either, every time you type an URL dozens of computers are saving everything you do. Don't use Google Chrome they save your passwords so if you use Chrome in another computer you don't need to type them, etc.
... and I'm sure after a year you won't pay for Whatsapp anyway so you should just give up now.
Have you ever used an Android? the very first thing it does is synchronize all your address book emails everything with every detail to Google. Nobody cares about that but you.
Last edited by Scorpius; 2012-07-12 at 12:29.
If I add a way to avoid sync, it'll be just because bandwidth utilization (which is kinda big) not because a privacy violation. There's no privacy violation, Whatsapp is not wrong here, YOU are. The privacy policy says they save the status information, that's it. They are NOT saving who's querying who.
I just don't feel right when you say you want to use Whatsapp under YOUR conditions and not theirs. What's that? If you are a man of principles just don't use it. I'm a man of principles and I don't really want to give you a way to use the service they are giving you for FREE under conditions different than the ones Whatsapp Inc proposed.
If you're concerned about privacy then don't use a cellphone, because every time you make a call your cell phone company will save that number as your contact. Don't use the Internet either, every time you type an URL dozens of computers are saving everything you do. Don't use Google Chrome they save your passwords so if you use Chrome in another computer you don't need to type them, etc.
... and I'm sure after a year you won't pay for Whatsapp anyway so you should just give up now.
Have you ever used an Android? the very first thing it does is synchronize all your address book emails everything with every detail to Google. Nobody cares about that but you.
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2012-07-12
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Originally Posted by tonypower88
I might be able to help with this.
Is it possible to have http proxy support with authention ( userame & password ) ? like pidgin
I cannot connect to whatsapp service using yappari on the campus because they have http proxy with authention
@tonypower88 & ahmadamaj: What proxy server do your institutions or companies use?
@Scorpius: Will Yappari honour $http_proxy if it is set?
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