Introducing WhatsApp's Desktop App

Post by squeaky-clean » Wed, May 11, 2016, 2:18 PM UTC

fastball wrote: post #200

nitin_flanker wrote: post #165

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>they may store on servers behind the scene at least for speed and performance. Yes, that's why I think so. They easily loads all the messages and images in just few seconds even when my phone's internet is too slow. They won't let you use the web app when you're phone is disconnected, so there's no way to confirm it.

In order to use Whatsapp Web you need to be on the same wifi network as your phone. Your phone has the data on it. Intranet speeds on most wifi networks these days is faster than 50Mbps. That's more than fast enough to transfer all your messages and photos with little to no lag. It doesn't matter how fast your connection to the WWW is because you're not using the WWW to transfer the data, you're using the wifi intran…

Post by kocsenc » Wed, May 11, 2016, 2:48 PM UTC

notinreallife wrote: post #185

aiNohY6g wrote: post #140

1/ phone tethering is the price to pay for end-to-end encryption: the support of multiple devices is not compatible with perfect forward secrecy, as the former require the asynchronous push of messages to all devices while PFS requires synchronicity (at least some kind of, as explained in their white paper here: https://lobste.rs/s/sx2f0r/whatsapp_encryption_overview_tech... 2/ if you don't like the Desktop App (or a…

What did they use to make the desktop app, I wonder. Maybe _electron 1.0_?!?

Post by notatoad » Wed, May 11, 2016, 2:59 PM UTC

nonterrorist wrote: post #202

746F7475 wrote: post #103

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You can get smart phones for like $20 and if they are not used for anything the service costs are like $5/mo

Unless you live in Canada.

Post by jdeibele » Wed, May 11, 2016, 3:57 PM UTC

Lx1oG-AWb6h_ZG0 wrote: post #84

ars wrote: post #81

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That doesn't explain them actively blocking google voice numbers. Or home phone numbers (landlines) for that matter. Let people use a landline number on a tablet.

I've had it working perfectly well with my google voice number for years now. When did they start blocking it? The only problem I recall is that the initial text verification doesn't work - I had to do the phone call option - but this is a problem with gvoice, not WhatsApp: google blocks pretty much all server-triggered texts.

Post by hudell » Wed, May 11, 2016, 4:36 PM UTC

kccqzy wrote: post #209

Longhanks wrote: post #192

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Neither does iMessage store messages on servers, and yet I receive iMessages on every device I signed on.

But you can't retrieve historical iMessages on a new device.