A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water

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... and I can't even continue the chat from my phone.

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Haha, WeChat is even more outrageous than this. All your forwarded files will be automatically stored again. Your chat records will always be stored on the disk, but WeChat will tell you that the chat records have expired. In addition, it has recently been discovered that every Once you log in to WeChat, your avatar will be saved more than ten times

You can actually delete the data for good in both the android and windows software through the interface, and it works. But yeah the amount of data is staggering.

I've got a reminder in my calendar to delete the data on the first day of a new quarter, so this here is accumulated since April 1st:

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"android is good" mfers when they have to manually set a calendar task to notify themselves to manually delete the bloated information for an app that they have installed.

no shade to you specifically, but it pisses me off how much android users circle jerk over it being better than IOS, even though it's like, moderately less annoying.

iphone mfs when they have to read the word android

insert weird rambling about superiority while feeling superior themselves

I can automatically clean up space, or restrict space used, but then I don't get to choose who's data to keep or.

gotta love when they implement half of the functionality, instead of just implementing all of the functionality, because it would take like, ten more seconds.