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.
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.
Instander has been working fine for me for a few years you can try it out
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.
No it doesn’t
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.
I’ve been using it for years and not been banned.
Yep not banned
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”.
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/
Agreed but Aeroinsta is more up-to-date and the pitch black theme is probably made (no hard to read text)
I’m using a Matrix bridge for WhatsApp through their connected apps mode. That works just fine and allows for a lot of customization because I have my own copy of all of my messages.
WhatsApp likes to keep control to give more guarantees for self deleting messages and to keep the fake WhatsApp messenger malware out, and I understand that completely to be honest. There’s a lot of money to be made in the world of stalkerware for modded WhatsApp clients that send copies of all messages to a third party.
What kind of customisations have you done?? 😳
I’m using various Matrix clients to access WhatsApp. In theory I could turn my account into a bot, but I don’t want to deal with WhatsApp’s bot detection. I could theoretically comment out the code that makes delete requests/retractions propagate or even warn that there was an attempted deletion, but I don’t feel the need to.
This setup doesn’t support calling, which is a shame. Maybe one day.
Does it support audio messages? or live location?
Seems great to me that it doesnt support calls :)
I don’t know, I don’t really use those features. Matrix itself supports audio messages and live location updates, and the bridge forwards the attachments I’ve sent through it, but I have no idea if the bridge actually manages to translate them into the right format.
Ty,
will still try and check it out
Live location isn’t supported. Audio messages work though.
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?
search for mautrix whatsapp (not a typo)
can you provide a playstore like for that? i searched but didn’t get it from the results.
It’s not on the play store, you either host your own matrix server, sign up for the wait list on beeper.com or find a public matrix server that runs a WhatsApp bridge anyone can use
You can pay for Beeper or you can set up the bridges yourself as they’re all open source.
There are Matrix bridges other people host that are free, but I wouldn’t use those. Bridges decrypt and optionally re-encrypt messages, so the admin can read and even modify every message you send.
I’m fairly certain the whatsapp matrix bridge supports end to bridge encryption
It supports WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption and it supports Matrix’s end-to-end encryption, but the two are not compatible.
The bridge receives the end-to-end encrypted messages from WhatsApp, puts them into end-to-end encrypted chats on the Matrix side, and the other way around. The messages get decrypted into memory where they’re readable (for a short while).
Until WhatsApp enables some kind of cross-platform messaging protocol (MLS/MIMI perhaps?), the temporary decryption is essential for the bridge to work.
I’ve used GBWhatsapp, WhatsApp+ etc. before. They’re banning modded apps.
And not to mention that these apps are sketchy as fuck and afaik are not open-source like the ones OP listed
Oh, OK. That makes sense. Thank you
I’m also one of those who use a matrix bridge for WhatsApp and never see the real app only use it with Element.
Never thought of this possibility. This is really interesting.
Not sure why you are getting the downvotes, Matrix is really an underated app.
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.
Happened to me too I think when I engage with lemmy.world
Huh, I wonder if there are downvoting bots set up by trolls then…
Yeah this is weird.
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
Not very familiar with using Matrix bridges, can they handle WhatsApp calls? (Not asking about Signal because I would like to keep using it)
It’s possibile by implementing also a turn server like this on your synapse (or whatever server you are using)
I’ll try and report back
Edit: It does not seem to work. Incoming Calls only send a text message “incoming call”
Okay, so you will get a notification that there was a call but can’t really attend it. That’s still pretty neat!
What’s the benefit with a bridge?
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.
I’ve been using GBWhatsapp by Fouadmods for years now. Works great for me.
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.
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.
Is there a github repo for this project? Is it open source?
Not to my knowledge.
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.
There are many, you might wanna check Universal WhatsApp Mods By RBMods
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.
what? i don’t think that works.
XMPP? It works.
I meant logging into WhatsApp with an XMPP client doesn’t work.
Well ofcourse. WhatsApp works on a propriatary network where they store all your chats
That answers nothing of what the OP asked
Would like a WhatsApp mod which has stories disabled.
