The rest of the article (not translated) is an interview with Cathcart.

I guess the hopes of a mass migration to another app are not good. On the other side, Brazil’s policies will have a great influence in the future development of whatsapp.

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    It’s an extreme monopoly here in Germany, too. But the EU will force them to be interoperable with other messengers soon, which will hopefully break that monopoly.

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      I’m interested to see how that’s implemented. I remember interacting with Facebook via email a long time ago.

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      I still wonder what’s so different with my circle that so many of them use signal. I mean sure, none use only signal and all also have WA, but almost everyone I know, which is people from Flensburg (border to Denmark) to RLP (center-south), aged late 20 to 70+, use signal. Less than 10% don’t.