However, many users, instead of accepting the company's conditions without question , began to look for other alternatives to WhatsApp . The change implied giving WhatsApp permission to share users' personal data, as well as their browsing history, companies with which they had contact on WhatsApp, and many other information, with Facebook servers, so that they could use them as much as they wanted. for your benefit as well as for third party companies.
Many users have decided in recent days not to go through the hoop and abandon the application or, at least, look for other options. That is why Signal , an instant messaging app with end-to-end encryption, has gained thousands of new users and Telegram, WhatsApp's main rival , has grown to exceed 500 million users per month.
The transfer of users occurs despite the fact that in the European Union the most sensitive points of the change of conditions of use of WhatsApp were not going to come into force, since the privacy of users was protected by the RGPD, but WhatsApp still he had the new conditions signed. Many in the old continent also showed their disagreement and decided not to give their approval to WhatsApp.
The number of users who have lost the instant messaging application in recent days is unknown , but possibly more than we think. That explains that WhatsApp, two days ago, published messages on their social networks emphasizing that they do not have access to the content of the conversations nor can they listen to the calls, or even buy full advertising pages in the newspapers of some countries to explain that the change was not so -for them- harmful.
But above all, that the number of lost users must be significant is shown by WhatsApp now backing down and signaling that they will review the changes again and that a revised version will take effect on May 15. We will have to see what are the terms that WhatsApp changes.