Whatsapp changes terms and conditions – that’s how surprisingly Germans react

Whatsapp has had to take a lot of criticism in recent months because of its announced change in the general terms and conditions. After Messenger moved the deadline for the new terms and conditions from February 8 to May 15, the company finally changed them last month.

The Germans show a surprising attitude Whatsappas a survey now shows.

Whatsapp: German users are turning their backs on Messenger

Two thirds of the Germans Whatsapp-Users are apparently not influenced by the changed terms and conditions. Only a third looked around for an alternative messenger, although some of them remained loyal to Facebook. Because a quarter of them ended up on Facebook Messenger, of all places. As the technology portal “t3n” reports, some also saw Telegram, Signal and iMessage from Apple as alternatives to Whatsapp.

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This is Whatsapp:

• The instant messaging service was founded in 2009 in Santa Clara, USA by Jan Koum and Brian Acton
• In 2014, Facebook Inc. bought Whatsapp for $ 19 billion
• The application is available for all common operating systems: Android. iOS, Windows Phone and Windows 10 Mobile
• The beta testing of Whatsapp Business started in Germany on January 25, 2018
• Whatsapp Payments is currently only available to users in India, but will soon be available in other countries as well

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According to the representative survey of 1,000 German participants that the market research institute Omniquest carried out on behalf of the VPN service provider Express-VPN in March, most Germans continue to rely on Whatsapp.

Most of them justified this with the fact that family and friends would continue to use Messenger despite the criticism. If you switched to another messenger, you would lose your contacts. 26 percent of those surveyed said that they did not care about the discussion of WhatsApp data protection issues and 21 percent did not want to switch for reasons of convenience.

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Whatsapp: Facebook Messenger in second place

Over 50 percent still trust Whatsapp for data protection. In second place in the ranking is Facebook Messenger, which 37 percent trust. This was followed by Telegram and Signal in fourth place, such as “t3n“Reported. (nk)

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