Submitted 3 weeks ago by dodecadance@lemmy.today to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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I’ve been trying to migrate away from snapchat for years now because everything about it irritates me but I’ve still got like 3 stragglers for whom it is my main form of communication.
I’ve never given Snapchat access to my contacts ever. It’s not only blocked in the app, but also on the system level. And yet I still get connection suggestions “from your contacts”. It’s infuriating
TikTok did the same shit back when I used it. It’s weird because I’ve always kept my internet life separate from my personal life, and now every app is begging to show my closest friends and family my shitposts, political takes and NSFW content. I’m mostly done with traditional social media by now at this point anyway. I’ve managed to kick tiktok and am now permanently banned from reddit so hopefully I won’t get sucked back in.
I’m pretty sure they connect it to your device ID
If you logged in using a phone number they’re referencing you from other people who have you in their contacts.
If you tell them no, they just dick you from another angle
I redownloaded Snapchat today on my degoogled phone since my friends use it all the time now and I’ve also seen that it somehow got all of my contacts. Turns out that it uploaded my contacts to their cloud without me clearly telling that when I first signed up.
To check if your contacts are in cloud: Go to your profile > Open “Settings” by tapping the cogwheel > Under “Account Actions”, select “Contact syncing” > Tap “See contacts shared with Snapchat”. You can delete your contacts there too, I just did that. If you have an Android phone, I’d recommend you to patch your app with something like ReVanced to minimize data collection.
I’ve disabled it on the system level and on my Samsung phone it doesn’t send those notifications. idk if calyxos has the ability to do that.
I’ve still got like 3 stragglers for whom it is my main form of communication.
Tell them you’re moving on. It’s not worth it. If they’re really your friends, you can find another way. If they don’t, they only care about the way you are on Snap. That’s hollow.
I was in the same situation as you. Just message them elsewhere and delete it. Everyone who wasn’t willing to message me on a better platform turned out to not be that worth interacting with. All the real ones did what they could to keep talking to me without hesitation and respected my reasoning
If I do that I will literally have 2 friends left.
Maybe you could keep talking them on Snapchat, but also on the other platform too. Are they really just completely unwilling to get on something like signal? you don’t even need to make an account really
Don't use META products.
Snap Inc. is its own company. Not that it is a good company.
I had that issue too, and contacted support! Turns out There is this guy from Swaziland, whose name happens to be Team Snapchat (you couldn’t make this shit up). So Mr. Snapchat and Team Snapchat’s accounts keep on colliding with one another… on Snapchat!
Just leave. Humans were alive before Snapchat and they’ll be alive when it’s dead as well.
Can someone explain what is snapchat for? Is ot like messaging app or a social app?
Originally for sending dick pics and tit pics, now it’s like early Facebook where instead of poking people and throwing sheep, you send a picture with or without a filter to get a streak.
Tanks, good I never get there
Dont they train AI on your snaps too now?
Godnroc@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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You can, however, rename them.
PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I named them “Advertisement” lol
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Mine is named “Corpo spam and slop”
aarch64@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
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