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Ask HN: Would a sandboxed WhatsApp bridge be possible?
Reading through many of these moving away from WhatsApp threads, it seems for some people it would alienate them from friends/family/general life goings on.
Short of running a phone with nothing else on it would it be possible to build a sandboxed WhatsApp instance that's bridged to a different client to keep FB off your actual device? This wouldn't solve chat privacy, but might help isolate the few group chats that might be unavoidable to leave.
- niutech 6y agoYou can bridge Whatsapp with Matrix and Matrix with many more messaging apps, e.g. Signal, Telegram, etc. using Android VM: https://matrix.org/docs/guides/whatsapp-bridging-mautrix-whatsapp https://matrix.org/docs/guides/whatsapp-bridging-mautrix-wha... You can also use Matterbridge in a similar manner: https://ibcomputing.com/setting-up-whatsapp-telegram-bridge-using-matterbridge-2020/ https://ibcomputing.com/setting-up-whatsapp-telegram-bridge-...