Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Man, if you really value your privacy you shouldn't use WhatsApp (difficult of course as everyone uses it)
and social media (difficult as everyone use it), except for Lemmy, Mastodon or Signal !!
Privacy is not an easy path as it's against the whole mainstream society.
But its worth embracing, because it's a human right, even if not "comfortable" doing so.
I'm aware. So even though I have to use them, I try to limit trackings as much as I can.
If I was forced to use WhatsApp, I would use shelter (or work profile) to separate it from the main profile.
This might be the "Open by default" setting that is now per app in Android. Insta has "9 verified links" that will just open it instead of the default browser. Go to app settings, Instagram, Open by default, and uncheck Open supported links.
I've done that. That's the issue.
Can you install a detailled permission control app like and disable whatsapps permission to see the list of installed apps?
If it thinks instagram isn't installed, it ought to fall back on using the regular url system if its ignoring that purposefully here, right?
Oh yeah, your 3rd sentence... I don't pay attention to details well
I don't want to sound like a broken record but Instagram is bad for privacy
You can circumvent it using Intent intercept apps, so unless Whatsapp specifically looks for the APK and call it directly (and just use normal intent URL schemes) then you can simply redirect that request.
Don't such apps require root permission to work? If an app directly specifies an other app for opening the link, I don't think you could intercept (or even detect) it with an other app on a regular phone.
Most apps just use a custom intent scheme and thus you can in fact intercept
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Bro just uninstall whatsapp. Like idk what you expect ..