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I unfortunately have to use WhatsApp in my country to meet basic needs. I used my account for almost two years, and suddenly it was blocked a few days ago. I submitted a review saying it must be a mistake, and then they unblocked my account with a 30‑day restriction that prevents me from initiating new chats. After three days, when I started a conversation with an “existing” business contact, my account was blocked again. The reason given was that my account was sending “spam.” It’s ironic because I’m the person who sends the fewest messages to anyone on WhatsApp.

I don’t care that a private company blocked me. What bothers me is that they have turned themselves into a centralized messaging monopoly where no one can leave the network. If users leave the network or get banned, their lives are disrupted for months.

I assume my ban might be because I’m using GrapheneOS. Is anyone else seeing a random ban on their WhatsApp account?

As per the recent introduction of "Terms of Use" for Firefox which is covered by (almost) copyleft license, Mozilla now imposes following non-sense on it's users.

- Mozilla now restricts users from watching or uploading sexuality explicit content through Firefox

- Mozilla can end anyone’s access to Firefox at any time for any reason

- Mozilla owns royalty-free, unrestricted access to your inputs processed by Firefox (like Search, Web History etc.)

- Mozilla will submit collected data to law enforcement as per legal request (I still don't get why it has to collect the data in the first place)

- Mozilla can change these ToS anytime and however they want

These are just a few bizarre conditions imposed by Mozilla. Even sadder part is we do not have alternatives right now except maybe LibreWolf and Tor Browser. Is there any actual piece of "user agent" software out there that works for user rather than corporate overlords?

ToS: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/

Anti-Privacy Policy: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/#bookmark-how-we-use-data

Acceptable Use Policy: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/acceptable-use/