There’s this rumor that you can create a WhatsApp account with a burner phone, then link the phone to a browser on your desktop PC (web.whatsapp.com) and never have to use the phone again. This just doesn’t work. Every ~2 weeks, the session in the browser will time out and you have to re-link again. 🙄
@movq@www.uninformativ.de while on the topic of WhatsApp, Europe is pretty reliant on it, isn’t it? Myself, in the US, exclusively use Messages (a vanilla iOS application) for 99% of my messaging needs. Only have WhatsApp… (what a shocker!) for my European family, and handful of friends. 🥴
@bender@twtxt.net It’s really popular among the general population, yeah. But luckily no official services (like government stuff or doctors) depend on it – yet.
Btw what about third-party chats support in WhatsApp? Iirc this feature only available in Europe
@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt Never ever heard of that. Does this really exist? 🤔
(Another weird/funny thing is that I tend to “overload” other people on WhatsApp. I use it on the desktop with a proper keyboard, while they all use cell phones. The end result is me being able to type much more text and much faster, so they all fall behind and can’t really reply properly, because it’s such a huge pain to type on a phone …)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de so, you keep lots of monologues. That’s the best “conversation” to keep! LOL.