here in israel its the same and we also got very high presence of Truecaller so ... | Hacker News

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		saargrin on Jan 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How WhatsApp works with other Facebook products here in israel its the same and we also got very high presence of Truecaller so basically if you expose your phone number anybody can find your real name and FB profile

infinityplus1 on Jan 6, 2021 [–]

To hide names from Truecaller, we have to create a truecaller account with the phone number and then change the name from your profile.

saargrin on Jan 7, 2021 | [–]

i thought truecaller used an average of everybody else's contacts to figure what to display

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