Maybe this was the plan all along? Tell everyone they need to accept or the app will stop working.. then when backlash inevitably hits hard they can backtrack. But by now 99% have already accepted.
So: Can I change my decision then?
Do they have a choice? When your product is eyeballs can you afford to turn them away. This is similar to Facebook's empty threat to charge Apple users. What a laugh. People will just switch to the next free thing. It isn't like someone else cannot offer the the exact same experience. All their real effort is in data mining and users don't give a shit about that.
I've already removed the app, and FB's communications avoid the topic of how I reinstall without accepting the "new" a.k.a current terms. So AFAIK I can't delete my account and plenty of people won't be able to accept this new deal of theirs.<p>I would think a lot of people were as careless about it as me and a lot of WhatsApp users are starting to think they are being intentionally ghosted by a few contacts.
Sidenote regarding whatsapps way to make users behave in their intended way:<p>Today whatsapp really annoyingly started reminding me that my old version will not be supported starting tomorrow. The popup appeared 20 times this morning already.
So I updated to the next version (not the current one), as this has nothing to do with the 'feared' privacy changes.
Now, whatsapp gives me full 9 days to update again, before it wont work anymore.
it's weird, i'm pretty sure i didn't accept the changes, but i don't see the app asking me about it anywhere.<p>Does it mean i have accepted them and don't remember it, or could the behavior be different in Europe ?