Because this topic came up in c/technology and I was wondering.
Would this be feasible? How bad would it be to your social life?
Because this topic came up in c/technology and I was wondering.
Would this be feasible? How bad would it be to your social life?
You can install WhatsApp and Signal in an Android emulator on the computer. We are using BlueStacks for this but there are other choices available. The emulated chat program wants to verify your phone number via SMS, just use your dumb phone and type the code by hand into the computer. That’s how my wife used Option #1 and only had social media at home. But as many services that could be used with a NFC/barcode plastic card are transitioning to app only mode this gets harder :-(
Yeah and people can chose another app. I tried a smartphone emulator for Signal, and I’m pretty sure I was the security weakness.