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Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI

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That's still one device. If you turn the primary phone off, the secondary device stops working. WhatsApp just proxies everything through the primary device, it's like WhatsApp Web.

oh, i see, is it the same for facebook messenger and instagram, imessage, etc?

I don't know, I don't use those. It is for Signal, I don't think so for Instagram, since I don't think that encrypts end to end.

Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI

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I just use telegram. Just yesterday I setup a bot which is easy via botfather And also, setup an app (claude built it but I had to fiddle with it, it works like pagerduty) but uses cloudflate worker to push downtime/errors (via fcm) in production (from graphana) via webhooks to "full screen, by pass dnd, alerts, with loud music, this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0IQBWWabuU ) I named the app "Siren". It's not…

it's really unfortunate that telegram doesn't do e2ee, bc it's hands down the best messenger otherwise :(

From what I understand you can have secure chats e2ee ? I like that I can login from multiple devices and continue the conversation. This was always annoying with whatsapp and signal. Worst case is mildly embarrassing stuff leaks.

Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI

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I just use telegram. Just yesterday I setup a bot which is easy via botfather And also, setup an app (claude built it but I had to fiddle with it, it works like pagerduty) but uses cloudflate worker to push downtime/errors (via fcm) in production (from graphana) via webhooks to "full screen, by pass dnd, alerts, with loud music, this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0IQBWWabuU ) I named the app "Siren". It's not…

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Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI

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I personally don't use whatsapp because I like it, but because all my contacts in my country are over there. It is officially more used than SMS here. It is not optional in my case :/

SMS is unsafe anyway.

zuck can read your whatsapp messages, at this point I think I'd rather criminals and the government read them instead

Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI

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Meta already has a whatsapp api product

For spammers. They don't have one for regular people who want to do regular end-user computation.

Companies in spain use it for legitimate reasons, so its more a lack of usage which makes spam the only usage?

Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI

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I just use telegram. Just yesterday I setup a bot which is easy via botfather And also, setup an app (claude built it but I had to fiddle with it, it works like pagerduty) but uses cloudflate worker to push downtime/errors (via fcm) in production (from graphana) via webhooks to "full screen, by pass dnd, alerts, with loud music, this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0IQBWWabuU ) I named the app "Siren". It's not…

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Do you have a proof?

Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI

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I just use telegram. Just yesterday I setup a bot which is easy via botfather And also, setup an app (claude built it but I had to fiddle with it, it works like pagerduty) but uses cloudflate worker to push downtime/errors (via fcm) in production (from graphana) via webhooks to "full screen, by pass dnd, alerts, with loud music, this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0IQBWWabuU ) I named the app "Siren". It's not…

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What even is this claim? Telegram is compromised? Some telegram bot/group got compromised?

Is there any proof of the global telegram issue related to amex links? Sounds like BS

Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI

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For spammers. They don't have one for regular people who want to do regular end-user computation.

Companies in spain use it for legitimate reasons, so its more a lack of usage which makes spam the only usage?

I consider marketing use to be spam, and this is what the API is primarily meant for.

I understand that WhatsApp is kinda special in that it effectively replaced SMS in some parts of the world, but IMO this needs to be looked at through the lens of other Meta effort. The same is the case with Facebook/Messenger, and has been since before WhatsApp has been a (Meta) thing - they offer multiple different official ways to support spamming users and tricking them to buy stuff, but may the Lord have mercy on you should you want to create an auto-responder or "save to calendar" script and hook it up to your personal account.

Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI

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> in many legislations Do you mean “jurisdictions”?

I said "legislations" because the word describes the existence of laws, while "jurisdictions" describes the law enforcement. There are still some European non-EU countries where you can get an anonymous phone number because laws are not fully enforced.

This is incorrect usage in English I'm afraid, and jurisdictions covers areas with different laws, 'legislations' is not used in this context.
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