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Re: Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server

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Post by JonnyaiR »

charlie-83 wrote: post #47
master-lincoln wrote: post #38

If 99% of your life is stored at one of the biggest advertising companies in the world you already gave up on privacy anyway...

All messages are e2e encrypted though right?

my mom showed me her phone the other day - she had updated her Whatsapp App and now the search bar has changed from "search your chats" to "search chats or ask Meta AI anything". I've googled a bit but did not find an option to disable meta AI and also found no definitive answer what Meta AI actually does - if i search for a chat, does it use this chat as context to provide answers? does it run locally (i highly doubt that)? is it only another interface to chat with an llm? It sure seems that this might be a stepping stone to pipe Whatsapp Messages into Meta AI and thus ignoring e2ee, not sure if it's done already but the line is getting quite thin.

Re: Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server

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Post by lharries »

nzach wrote: post #33

There is any reason why you choose to build a Python wrapper for a Golang binary? I've been playing around with mcp-go[0] and it seems pretty good. [0] - https://github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go

Mainly that I'm more familiar with Python — you're correct however that MCP Go would be a good way to go if I do a bigger refactor

Re: Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server

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Post by master-lincoln »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #45
master-lincoln wrote: post #38

If 99% of your life is stored at one of the biggest advertising companies in the world you already gave up on privacy anyway...

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I don't think there was any moral critique in what I wrote. I just commented on OPs

> so you maintain full control and privacy

Of course everybody is free to chose who they hand over data to.

One more comment to your writing:

> take their favorite apps away

there was no mention of taking anybody's app away. If people want to contact me they will need to use something that is not owned by a big advertising company. One can install additional apps or use services that do not need any apps.

Re: Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server

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Post by lharries »

gabll wrote: post #17

I don’t know if whatsmeow was intended for this use case: imagine a LLM performing multiple calls in a short period of time, could you risk to have your whatsapp account blocked by Meta?

It saves the messages in a local SQLite database on load — so querying shouldn't be an issue as it doesn't contact the WhatsApp server. For sending, this does use the API however and needs more caution

Re: Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server

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Post by tuananh »

echoangle wrote: post #49

As others have already said, think about what you're doing when you use this. If you connect a not-selhosted LLM to this, you're effectively uploading chat message with other people to a third-party server. The people you chat with have an expectation of privacy so this would probably be illegal in many jurisdictions.

removed.

my bad.

Re: Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server

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Post by lharries »

samastur wrote: post #6

Cool work, but I'm more fascinated by your claim "99% of your life is stored in WhatsApp...". Not even remotely true for me even if it would encompass all messaging apps I use. I guess I'm just an old introvert, but it makes me wonder how life looks like for those for whom it is true.

For most people, their life isn't stored in neat Notion database.

Instead, if you have calendar + email + their main messaging apps (e.g. WhatsApp) you cover the majority of it. It's messy and unstructured — but luckily LLMs are great at that

Re: Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server

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Post by darkwater »

gus_massa wrote: post #34
CarlitosHighway wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The way to absolute dominance of WhatsApp with the Normies has't been sufficiently analyzed, I reckon. Somehow, WhatsApp managed to become extremely popular and heavily used by people who have trouble switching on a desktop pc. Even senior citizens have no trouble using it. Is it because they have a high motivation to use it? The UI / UX of WhatsApp surely isn't great, I'd even say it's quite bad. Where am I wrong? W…

> Where am I wrong? What am I not seeing? The killer application are the group chats. Normies can't make an email group, or remember to reply to all, or even make a Yahoo! Group [dead] or Google Group [dead?]. It's very easy to setup a group in WhatsApp and keep the member list updated. For bonus points, it's very difficult to Ctr-C the info in WhatsApp, it's easier to press the arrow and forward the message to anoth…

> PS: Also, a few eons ago in many countries SMS had a cost, and WhatsApp was free, it was so another good point to use it.

That was the starting point for sure in many European countries.

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