03 August 2021, 09:08 pm
WhatsApp has debuted its View Once feature, which resembles that of a disappearing photo feature on several messaging applications, bordering on encrypted messaging. This is a feature that most instant messaging applications already have, even WhatsApp s sister company, Instagram, for its direct messages feature.
The Facebook-owned social messaging application has been launching a lot of features in the past months, something that is already available from other apps. One example is a video chatting tool that resembles the iOS FaceTime.
WhatsApp View Once Feature
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According to WhatsApp s latest blog post, the company has added in a slur of new features for its services and one of them is a privacy-centered messaging tool called View Once. Yes, this is something already found on other service providers and instant messaging apps, but is only available via its encrypted chat feature or Secret Chats.
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Dissenting voices from across the world are using the software to plan protests and share information
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As you scroll through your Telegram feed, one image jumps out.
It shows crowds of young Hong Kongers, all dressed in black, at a protest, holding their smartphones aloft like virtual cigarette lighters from a Telegram channel called HKerschedule.
Calls to action like this have migrated from fly posters and other highly visible methods of communication online.
Secure messaging has become vital to organising protests against an oppressive state.
Many protest groups have used the encrypted service Telegram to schedule and plan demonstrations and marches. Countries across the world have attempted to ban it, with limited levels of success. Vladimir Putin’s Russia tried and failed, the regimes of China and Iran have come closest to eradicating its influence in their respective states.
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More than a billion people around the globe use WhatsApp to stay in touch, and while people have been looking for alternatives in the wake of some recent controversies, it can be difficult to quit if your friends circle is already entrenched.
Like most messaging apps of this type, you can only communicate with others who are also using WhatsApp messaging apps aren t universal like text messages are. There’s no way to text someone from WhatsApp and have them receive it on Facebook Messenger, for example, or vice-versa. That’s what makes it so hard to leave services like WhatsApp. They only work if you take your friends with you.