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Finally! WhatsApp forces you to share your address book or it won't run, so I've only ever used it on a burner phone when travelling (because it is essential in some countries). I wish Google would support this too.

Now we need location granularity permissions: None-Country-City-Locality-Precise, and the app shouldn't know which one it is getting.






I've had WhatsApp for years and while it does ask for contacts, it works just fine if you deny that permission.

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Almost. You need a workaround for chatting with new numbers and can't add anyone to groups.

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• New numbers: fortunately you can just type the number in.

• Adding to groups: Sharing an invite link is a good workaround, you need to be group admin though.

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