Apparently, they’ll need to approve all chat appa before communicating with them. The big players probably won’t want to become just a WhatsApp client, and independent projects probably won’t be able to afford whatever exorbitant fee they’ll probably set to sign up for the list.
At least if its possible to use a foss client you can interact with WhatsApp users without needing their shitty spyware app.
Actually that article says third-party chats, not third-party clients. I don’t think they are gonna open their proprietary api for everyone. 🤐
Isn’t that effectively the same thing for people wanting to not use WhatsApp, you’d still be using a different client to speak to people on whatsapp?
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Exactly, making everyone to switch over to something else is impossible…l’ll uninstall it as soon as they roll this out
Already uninstalled. 😉
Apparently, they’ll need to approve all chat appa before communicating with them. The big players probably won’t want to become just a WhatsApp client, and independent projects probably won’t be able to afford whatever exorbitant fee they’ll probably set to sign up for the list.