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Why are there good mods for Discord (Aliucord, Vendetta...) and YouTube (Revanced), but no good mods for WhatsApp?

I feel like all apps by the user-stalking company Meta are not modded enough, though they are some of the most-used apps.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Meta is really "protecting" their apps integrity and APIs. Tried many Instagram mods and got banned on all of them. Because WhatsApp is now in Meta's hands they have same policy for WhatsApp probably never tried but if you don't want to get banned don't try mods, at least not at your main account.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Instander has been working fine for me for a few years you can try it out

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm curious, does it allow browsing without an account ?

I have used something called barinsta in the past, but it is no longer working.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No it doesn't

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah I heard about it but it hasn't been updated from 11/01 so does it work I mean you haven't been banned by Facebook? Before I tried AeroInsta but after few minutes of using I've got banned.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've been using it for years and not been banned.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

WhatsApp is now in Meta's hands

it's been owned by Facebook/Meta for almost a decade, so I'm not sure it warrants using "now".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Lobo6780

@Unbeelievable

Instander is a good insta alternative and it self updates and adds functionality. Give it a shot it's a great app https://thedise.me/instander/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed but Aeroinsta is more up-to-date and the pitch black theme is probably made (no hard to read text)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What kind of customisations have you done?? 😳

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does it support audio messages? or live location?

Seems great to me that it doesnt support calls :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Live location isn't supported. Audio messages work though.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ty,

will still try and check it out

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How does one go about to connect whatsapp to matrix and send msgs via it? Is there an article that I can read up on?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm fairly certain the whatsapp matrix bridge supports end to bridge encryption

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

search for mautrix whatsapp (not a typo)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've used GBWhatsapp, WhatsApp+ etc. before. They're banning modded apps.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

And not to mention that these apps are sketchy as fuck and afaik are not open-source like the ones OP listed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, OK. That makes sense. Thank you

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm also one of those who use a matrix bridge for WhatsApp and never see the real app only use it with Element.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Never thought of this possibility. This is really interesting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure why you are getting the downvotes, Matrix is really an underated app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, it definitely seem underrated.

About the downvotes, this is not the first time that has happened. I have been repeatedly getting downvoted on some of the tech or related communities on Lemmy instances recently for completely innocuous comments. Since I am on kbin, they don't impact me in anyway, but I have been puzzled about it. The only explanation I can come up with is something I wrote at some point offended someone and they are just down voting whatever post they see of mine with multiple accounts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Happened to me too I think when I engage with lemmy.world

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

It's also nice because you only need one messenger for WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal combined.

Plus all of those chats are searchable and backed up in one single location

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the benefit with a bridge?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

You have only one UI for all text chats, no need to remember on which app you talked with your cousin and on which app you talked with your friend. All of them are in this one app.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using GBWhatsapp by Fouadmods for years now. Works great for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that even safe? I looked it up and it looks sketchy and saw lots of clone websites. Nothing mentioned with regards to privacy. Needless to say it is probably closed-source as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I trust the modder more than I'm willing to trust Facebook, if that answers your question. As for the clone sites, there was some fuss with imposters. this is the legit one, in case you wanted it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a github repo for this project? Is it open source?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not to my knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

About ten years ago I used WhatsApp+ which had unheard of features like rounded profile pictures. At some point they banned me for a day, then it worked again until they banned for 3 days and after a ban of two weeks I finally gave up.

Nowadays it'd be still great if there were patches to e.g. schedule messages like Signal does, but imo there isn't much missing anymore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There are many, you might wanna check Universal WhatsApp Mods By RBMods

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

WhatsApp was build upon XMPP protocol. You can look into XMPP clients.

Besides that WhatsApp is not the way to communicate anyway. Normies use it because it is put up on their face and considered to be widely acceptable among them, while rhey don't understand how privacy invading it is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what? i don't think that works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I meant logging into WhatsApp with an XMPP client doesn't work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well ofcourse. WhatsApp works on a propriatary network where they store all your chats

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That answers nothing of what the OP asked

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Would like a WhatsApp mod which has stories disabled.

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