Original WhatsApp was XMPP with phone number for your username. Pretty much what quicksy.im does now.
WhatsApp today is completely different beast.
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pre@fedia.io 3 months ago
Whatssapp is designed as a surveillance app, it's primary purpose is to collect data from your phone for Facebook to analyze, so they make it basically impossible to use unless it's installed on your phone.
ccx@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
But Facebook bought WhatsApp in like 2015 was it?
pre@fedia.io 3 months ago
@beeng I wonder what proportion of the original code is still there. Not much I shouldn't think. The original app didn't ask for android permissions the way the modern one does, if only coz Android changed the way permissions work since then.
@robin