Sucks to live in a country where all digital communication de facto happens via whatsapp. This was before fb bought the app, mind you.
Preaching to the choir.
Lol… You really should never have used it in the first place… People were warning against Facebook from the very beginning… It’s no surprise that it’s no better under the name Meta…
They have all the data from everyone who’s ever used it anyway. BTW, good luck with unrooted phones—you can’t actually remove that stuff on them (not the stuff that shows up in the list of installed apps).
You’ve contributed so much with this comment.
People who have used it should take a closer look at data poisoning. In other words, they should generate a very, very large amount of false data. (Well, not just those people… but those people in particular should definitely do it. )
Nevertheless, there are also older, effective tracking methods (including GrapheneOS, etc.—well, anyway…) even for TVs predating smart TVs, etc. One such method would be uXDT. Lets dont forget side channel attacks
Thanks to LLMs, today’s attack vectors have changed so drastically that it’s already impossible to keep up. You could check this out " Radware 2026 Global Thread Analysis Report"
Unless you’re using GrapheneOS, CalyxOS or LineageOS, you have no chance of removing bloatware crap or corpo malware.
You can install and uninstall anything with root privileges. There may be issues with system components, but that doesn’t include stuff from Meta, etc. By the way, GrapheneOS also suffers from critical CVEs—several, in fact—specifically on the devices where GrapheneOS can be installed… Qualcomm and its closed-source drivers, which the GrapheneOS team can’t do anything about. (But strangely enough, grapheneOS only runs on Google phones or devices with Qualcomm chips… The honey tastes so sweet from this honeypot. )
