Comment by m4rtink
4 years ago
Whatsapp used to be openly hostile against efforts for providing native client applications even for platforms they never plan to support themselves. Going as far as effectively attacking open source project developers working the clients - for an example see: https://reviewjolla.blogspot.com/2014/10/got-banned-in-whats...
(Sailfish OS is a Linux based mobile distro.)
That sucks. I hate when companies do this. How would they even know what kind of client is talking to their servers?
Some sort of undefined behavior or possibly some per build random key that triggers imposter warning if the third party app fails to send the correct key ?
In any case totally evil behavior from their side. Its already bad enough they run totally proprietary centralized service with no public API & ignore any non-mainstream mobile platforms. But when they start banning users of third party clients on those platforms and go after third party client developers with presumably legal treats - that's pure evil, no way around it.