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Re: WhatsApp is blocking Telegram links

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Post by NameNickHN »

brainburn wrote: post #27
NameNickHN wrote: post #18

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> pushing my friends to telegram Do you have any suggestions on how to do that? The People I know either think Whatsapp is gods gift to mankind and won't switch or they can't use anything else because the people they interact with think it's gods gift to mankind and won't switch. I find it pretty hard to break that cycle.

Uhm, decent support on all your devices? (there's even a commandline client). Versus that ridiculous hack where you can whatsapp in the browser, provided you scan a qr code and have the phone on the same network.

> there's even a commandline client

This totally speaks to me but I imagine saying to my buddies at the club: "You should use Telegram. It's free, you don't need an account, and best of all there is even a command line client.". That'll convince them right away. ;-)

Re: WhatsApp is blocking Telegram links

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Post by mlrtime »

striking wrote: post #16
danmendes wrote: post #15

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You would think that is the reason, and not the fact that their matching service can only appropriate value into the company if the two peers being matched can not effectively coordinate themselves?

That's plausible, except when you do it that way there's a really great chance you'll be screwed over. Airbnb can protect its users to some degree, it's up to you whether you want to use it or not.

You still get screwed over with airbnb, they are not there to help you.

Re: WhatsApp is blocking Telegram links

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Post by kccqzy »

brainburn wrote: post #27
NameNickHN wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> pushing my friends to telegram Do you have any suggestions on how to do that? The People I know either think Whatsapp is gods gift to mankind and won't switch or they can't use anything else because the people they interact with think it's gods gift to mankind and won't switch. I find it pretty hard to break that cycle.

Uhm, decent support on all your devices? (there's even a commandline client). Versus that ridiculous hack where you can whatsapp in the browser, provided you scan a qr code and have the phone on the same network.

I don't think WhatsApp Web is a ridiculous hack. Instead I think it's quite an ingenious hack to allow you to use a computer to send and receive messages without 1) dealing with the pesky message synchronisation issues that plague iMessage, and 2) having the server store all messages. And your phone only needs to be connected to the Internet, not necessarily on the same network. Regarding the use of QR code, I think it's a clever way to authenticate too; no password to memorise, just a long random auth token.

Re: WhatsApp is blocking Telegram links

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Post by Tinyyy »

gkfasdfasdf wrote: post #35

According to the Telegram FAQ [1] the Telegram Facebook page [2] has been taken down as well. [1] https://telegram.org/faq#facebook [2] https://www.facebook.com/tlgrm

Oh wow, that’s ridiculous! Facebook attacking Telegram to such an extent leaves a really bad taste in my mouth.

Re: WhatsApp is blocking Telegram links

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Post by mmebane »

JosephRedfern wrote: post #19
bathory wrote: post #17

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That's only true if you choose to obfuscate your code on android. I recently decompiled an apk and all variables/function names were perfectly readable

Even variable names? I know that class/method/field names are visible, but I didn't think that local variable names were. I can't see a reason for them to be, aside from debugging... and presumably they're not shipping a debug build.

It used to be incredibly common for production APKs to contain Java debug info (line numbers and variable names). IIRC, Android Studio now sets up the Release builds to strip this out and do basic ProGuard optimizations, but if WhatsApp was migrated from an old build system or something, it could easily be missing this step.
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