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please help me understand "whatsapp bridge", does it work like a the telegram bot where you DONT need a telegram account to bridge to a room/person, they can ju
by 2Gkashmiri 4y ago
please help me understand "whatsapp bridge", does it work like a the telegram bot where you DONT need a telegram account to bridge to a room/person, they can just message you directly or like a front-end for your existing whatsapp account? like a proxy of sorts? instead of having multiple apps, you still have multiple accounts but a single app?
i can't wait enough for EU's DMA to be enforced so that i can finally talk to "whatsapp" without having a whatsapp account ( i currently don't so losing out on that)
- the_duke 4y agoI think the What's App bridges use the web version in a headless browser. Which means you'll also need to have what's App running on a phone or in a VM. ps I think this fall's under the DSA, not the DMA.
- esperent 4y ago> Which means you'll also need to have what's App running on a phone or in a VM. I think WA removed that requirement recently.
- 2Gkashmiri 4y agoyou still need to have a whatsapp account?
- esperent 4y agoYeah of course, you can't use any private messaging app without an account I think? Previously though you had to scan a QR code with your phone to log in to the web app. Since a couple of months ago this is no longer necessary.
- 2Gkashmiri 4y agoso... how does that work, i mean the whatspp. i understand if you have to talk to instagram users, you would do something like oath and that would work but how will whatsapp work? you are giving me some ideas, maybe i can set it up for the family and they can use it to accumulate their contacts on self hosted matrix?
- blacklight 4y agohttps://github.com/mautrix/whatsapp https://github.com/mautrix/whatsapp