More recently I encouraged friends and family to move to Signal, after I deleted WhatsApp.
Is there an issue with WhatsApp (other than ownership).
I have it for a couple of message groups.
If you use Android & the default backup service (it's free!) then your data is backed up to Google Drive - unencrypted & negating the E2E privacy you thought you enjoyed. Google, of course, have access to your WhatsApp backup data that they store for "free" (& then share to FB, it's fair to assume). The online backup function is being slowly enforced by the app, WA now only stores 7 days of data locally, after that it's Google Drive with no option available for you to upload / store your data anywhere else.
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