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[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't love being spied on and shit but that's a pretty basic requirement. You can probs just call people on the app.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How is it a basic requirement? No apps should be able to make and manage phone calls apart from your caller app. Even WhatsApp does not need this, and apps that use cellular calling can just open the phone number in the caller app, as they do when e.g. you click on a number in chrome.

[–] bokherif@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

Whatsapp does in fact need this to make calls