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They know your relationships with other people, and could infer things about you which will be stored in their servers regardless of whether you have a Facebook account, I believe if you search for "shadow accounts" you can read more about that

You could compile the software yourself, and the builds they do publish are reproducable, therefore any hidden malicious code would almost certainly be noticed in any popular application.

Metadata is all the content of a message besides the actual text content of the message (i.e. what you type). Examples would be the date and time it is sent, what users these messages were sent to / from, and the IP addresses of both parties. (The availability of metadata varies from messenger to messenger).

I like this example: If you only text your Aunt Sally, who lives in Alaska, twice per year to wish her a happy birthday and Christmas, just by looking at the metadata someone could infer the meaning of your messages, as well as your relationship to the person you're messaging. To a point this is true about any messages you sent.

As for Whatsapp specifically, it being end-to-end doesn't really matter imo, as the application is not open source and is owned by an advertising / social media company. As long as the code is closed source, you cannot be sure:

1. That your messages are encrypted at all
2. That your encryption keys are kept on-device, and not plainly available to a centralized party
3. That the encryption the application is using is securely implemented

At least for applications handling truly sensitive information (for the average person only their messenger and browser), you should be using open source software. The easiest recommendations I can make are:

1. Browsers: Firefox, Thorium, Brave (disabled all cryptocrap)
2. Messengers: Signal, SimpleX Chat, XMPP

Anyways, I hope this was a satisfactory answer.

I think wining about land that was conquered (as well as who's inhabitants populations would've been decimated by disease upon contact with Europeans either way) very similarly to other places throughout history doesn't have much merit. I'm sympathetic to tribes who have had their sacred land promised to them and taken away (like the Black Hills). In terms of what American Indians are entitled to have back, I think cultural artifacts have a stronger argument than land, regardless of what they care about more.

Im actually sympathetic to your sentiment when it comes to the land they lived on, but definitely not when it's applied to historical artifacts which are culturally significant to them.

Long story short, there is no proper response besides dissolving the country and leaving. The Israeli government is incentivized to wipe out Palestinians, and whatever decisions they make are to that end.

I use Organic Maps all the time with no issues, I use Gmaps WV to find places if they arent on openstreetmap

Fuck off

Edit your post next time, dumb fuck.

I can't understand how someone can be ignorant enough to think being anti-isreal is equivalent to being an antisemite.