In June, the GSMA responsible for RCS finalized the latest standard with the ability to delete a sent message, and Google Messages…

  • OmgItBurns@discuss.online
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    6 months ago

    Seeing as how text messages are often used as evidence of abuse, cheating, or other awful acts I struggle to see this as a good thing.

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      6 months ago

      That’s certainly an issue, but for me it was already quite useful for deleting unread obsolete messages (e.g. deleting “can you bring milk” after you realized that there still is some), or messages accidentally sent to the wrong person. I think limiting to a short time frame and/or only unread messages would solve most of the possible abuse.

      • dudeami0@lemmy.dudeami.win
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        6 months ago

        Why not just reply “Oh we have milk!”. Why is deleting messages the best course of action when you can just communicate that you were misinformed?

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        6 months ago

        Its supposed to be e2e encrypted messages but I’m skeptical about that too