WhatsApp chain letter: Rumor has it that the group privacy settings have been quietly changed.
If you have the “right” contacts, you can see chain letters on WhatsApp every day. Those who pass on information have no intention of harming anyone, on the contrary. Sometimes they claim WhatsApp is taxed and other times they say it’s because of privacy or security concerns. As in the current WhatsApp chain letter, to which our attention has already been drawn several times. You can read the content below:
Last night WhatsApp updated its settings. It adjusted the group settings to “Everyone” and added you to it.
This means that any WhatsApp user can add you to a group without your knowledge or consent, even if you don’t know them.
As a result, your content can be targeted or sent as spamming.
You can reset this setting to its previous state so that only your contacts can join your group – not strangers:
Visit WhatsApp
Select Settings from the drop-down menu at the bottom right.
Account should be visited.
go to the privacy page
go to the Groups page
The setting should be changed from “All” to “My Contacts”.
In the end, this chain letter isn’t even completely wrong. But at least the ARD believes to sell the entire content as a fact and has shown in the morning magazine how you can adjust the group settings.
It is correct: This function and this setting have existed – since the end of 2019 – and you can use it to change the fact that you are not thrown into a group by all, but only by (selected) contacts. It is not true that WhatsApp reset any global settings.
I interviewed contacts from all over the world for several hours – and everyone who deliberately set something other than “Everyone” has still set it. Now you can’t clairvoyant and only guess what went wrong with people who, according to their own statements, had something other than “Everyone” there. You will not have looked into this function yesterday and will notice something else today if you do not intervene.
However, “everyone” in the groups is not new as a function and many also do not regard it as a “secretly added” function. In principle, you should regularly check the privacy settings of a service. Errors are inevitable.
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