Google Messages wants to make sure you don't see texts from blocked contacts anywhere

Drusas, 13 days ago

I have a friend who is too beautiful (and unfortunately meek) for her own good, attracting stalker types with horrifying regularity. This is a great change.

can, 13 days ago

However, blocked contacts will still be able to see your messages in a group chat, which is sort of strange, but that’s how it works for now.

Is that strange? Couldn’t there be a benefit of not letting them know you blocked them?

GreenEngineering3475, 13 days ago

On the flip side, they can read your group chat messages. Many(me included) will prefer that it isn’t a possibility.

Grunt4019, 10 days ago

Why would you block someone and then stay in a group chat with them?

skullgiver, 13 days ago

It’s strange for SMS/MMS, where recipients are explicitly listed.

I don’t think there’s a practical use preventing the arrival of such messages, but on a technical level it’s a bit peculiar.

I’m not familiar enough with the RCS spec to know if RCS has the same design or if it’s simply incapable of hiding messages from members of a group chat. In encrypted chats, you’d expect encrypted messages to become undecryptable for blocked recipients at least, that’s one of the major advantages of using encryption, but I guess there must’ve been a reason why this wasn’t implemented.

Gradually_Adjusting, 13 days ago

As someone who was being stalked for a while, would have been really fucking nice if Voice had sorted this out a few years ago

Alice, 13 days ago

Removed