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How can you prevent them from tracking your activity on WhatsApp?

  • June 27, 2022
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Photo Europe Press What’s up? It is an application that facilitates communication, although some people abuse features such as last connection time or status update. awkward and even

How can you prevent them from tracking your activity on WhatsApp?
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What’s up? It is an application that facilitates communication, although some people abuse features such as last connection time or status update. awkward and even abusive situationsthat the company is trying to revert with its recent changes.

The messaging app has recently enabled users to protect your information. In this way, users will be able to protect themselves on features such as last link, information and profile picture or status.

The company already allows to manage the privacy level of these four features on both Android and iOS. Thus, the user can decide that they are open. Everythingso that all users can see such information, or Nooneit’s completely invisible.

There are two more options in between: on the one hand, my contactsThis ensures that only contacts saved in the phone book can see when the user was last connected, profile picture, info section and status updates. There is also the option My connections, except…This prevents certain enrollees from accessing such information.

Whichever option is preferred can be found in them. Settingsin the part Privacy. Once there, simply tap into each feature to set your desired privacy level.

However, one nuance must be made. Other users will still be able to see it when the user is connected if you are online or typing then a message This is a feature without privacy controls.

read receipts

On the other hand, read receipts are known as blue ticks because they turn blue when read. recipient received the message and opened the chat There are also privacy options for reading

Especially in the same section. Privacyinside Settings, you can check or uncheck read receipts. The company warns that if disabled, other people will not be able to see the blue ticks, but the user himself will not be able to see anyone else’s.

With these settings it is possible to avoid situations where someone insists we reply to a message. because she saw us connecting On WhatsApp and we did not write to him. Or when someone watches how many times we connect to WhatsApp, to name a few examples.

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Source: El Nacional

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