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Facebook/Instagram bought Giphy. Giphy is built into Wire. We don't want Facebook data-mongers in Wire. #347

Open tokariu opened 4 years ago

tokariu commented 4 years ago

Here is the official news: https://about.fb.com/news/2020/05/welcome-giphy/

Please discuss why or why not this is a serious issue for Wire.

CharlesCage commented 4 years ago

Came to express similar concern, though I suspect Wire has a plan to remove/replace it.

cardassian-tailor commented 4 years ago

I Posted this in another section on wires GitHub also. I agree 100%

The tricky part is - with regards to gif sharing services - you need to team up with a company who provides a similar service but has a dedication and commitment to privacy. I don’t know of one. The only other alternative is to create a new product in that space. If you do that you have a new problem - the model for gif sharing services is primarily a freemium model based around ads and selling personal data. You would have to reinvent that.

I’d say go with the later. Team up with other players in this space. Signal. Proton. Wire. Get these people on the same wave length and make a product to fill this space that also respects privacy.

jamestomasino commented 4 years ago

A wire for iOS issue from a few years ago linked to this post from Signal about their experiments in building a secure interface to giphy. Perhaps there is a path to be followed or new developments in the area.

tokariu commented 4 years ago

A wire for iOS issue from a few years ago linked to this post from Signal about their experiments in building a secure interface to giphy. Perhaps there is a path to be followed or new developments in the area.

indeed, I also remember the signal-solution. That might be a great solution handling the giphy situation. I guess this is more realistic than privacy oriented messengers teaming up to create a privacy oriented giphy-clone. but who knows...

what's the wire-team thinking about this?

vincegre commented 4 years ago

what's the wire-team thinking about this?

Probably absolutely nothing considering how they completely gave up on their client softwares since years :( Myself I would see absolutely no objection removing that useless feature for me !

ghost commented 4 years ago

That sounds really concerning. Anything to do with Facebook I hope Wire distances itself from.

vincegre commented 4 years ago

That sounds really concerning. Anything to do with Facebook I hope Wire distances itself from.

Don't hope anything from Wire, it's a long time they have completely given up on getting a client properly coded and that works fine (same bugs since ages in app....) and they don't care about feedback from customers....

ghost commented 3 years ago

That sounds really concerning. Anything to do with Facebook I hope Wire distances itself from.

Don't hope anything from Wire, it's a long time they have completely given up on getting a client properly coded and that works fine (same bugs since ages in app....) and they don't care about feedback from customers....

Yeah, I've been feeling that disconnect for the past year too now. It's pretty much like the iOS app has been abandoned and they went full steam ahead for enterprise only. I used to use it for all messaging, don't really use it at all anymore.

vincegre commented 3 years ago

Yeah, I've been feeling that disconnect for the past year too now. Past year ? you're really kind with them, they have never given a sh*t about their users and improve their crappy app and it's like that since at least 4 years !!