HeadbangingPony<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/leaveMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leaveMeta</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Threema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Threema</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deinstallWhatsApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deinstallWhatsApp</span></a></p><p>I have deinstalled <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WhatsApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhatsApp</span></a> a while ago. However today I found out that my ex-profile does still appear in chat lists of my former contacts. Its not visible to them, that I am not on WhatsApp anymore. They even still can send me messages (who knows where these messages go to...).<br>Question: is there a way to make my former profile disappearing?<br>Also I wonder whether Meta still can use my data to do their dirty business.<br>Any thoughts?</p>