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- WhatsApp will soon support disappearing messages, but the feature isn’t as privacy-friendly as it might sound.
- Users can’t customize the life of ephemeral messages, and they’ll only disappear after seven days if the feature is enabled on all the devices engaged in the same chat.
- Recipients will still be able to quote, forward, reply, and take screenshots of ephemeral messages, which practically defeats the purpose of the extra security feature.
Facebook plans to merge all its three instant messaging apps, including Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp in the future, in a tool that will be end-to-end encrypted. The company has already merged Instagram and Messenger a few weeks ago. WhatsApp is Facebook’s most secure chat apps so far, and the only one that offers end-to-end encryption if you require that sort of protection from your chat apps and want to use a Facebook app. And Facebook plans to soon add a welcome security feature to WhatsApp chat, support for ephemeral messages, similar to what’s available on competing platforms. The feature isn’t yet live, but a FAQ section reveals various troubling issues about it. It turns out the disappearing messages will not be quite that ephemeral, as there are too many exceptions that would allow someone to save the contents of a message and even send it over other others.
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