So I just installed Viber…
The thing is absolute garbage.
First it asked permission for every conceivable private violation possible
Second it informs everybody that I have Viber so now people I don’t want to talk with at all are talking to me
Third I received a couple pictures I can’t open for some reason
And forth it seems to be butthurt I wanted to send the pictures to someone else using another program…
Y is Viber such garbage?
on the other hand, it features legcat
I can’t open an image someone sent to me. I can’t forward it to someone else because oops, something went wrong…
I don’t care what features it have…
it is known
It asks permissions for camera,contacts,location,microphone,storage,telephone.
Given the fact that is a message/voip app Microphone/Contacts/Telephone permissions are understandable.
You can turn location off and the app will still run fine.
True but not exactly. Users have the ability to turn those notifications off.
I have it off and I don’t receive a message that someone from my contacts has a Viber now.
Also there is a block list.
Did you gave the app permissions to use your Storage.
I don’t know what you mean.
When I want to share stuff the phone asks me which app I want to use and the others don’t suffer from jealousy 
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It’s not the best thing out there but it’s not the worst either.
I fricking love legcat.
I gave it all permissions aside from location.
I installed Viber because I need a picture of the engine parts my dad needs to fix the car. So I received the pictures and the Viber first doesn’t open them, second don’t forward them. It tells me “something have gone wrong” and that is that.
A d it’s the latest version. I just downloaded the garbage.
Don’t know what to suggest here.
Check your [insert number here]G / Wi-fi connection.
Delete and reinstall the app again, if you haven’t done it already.
The only messaging platforms I use are Riot/Matrix and Signal. Maybe whatsapp but other than that I dont trust or like any other platform.
There’s also ricochet but that’s very niche and not convenient and only certain people will bother to use it.