Tomorrow is the day WhatsApp will change forever. March 6 This is the day when the obligations imposed by the European Commission on applications designated as gatekeepers, such as WhatsApp, come into force.
SO, WhatsApp must open its chats to third-party applications for the first time in its history. It seems that the application is already ready for this and will warn us that it will be a door for spam, although it is not lost. We have verified that as users we can choose whether or not we want to enable third-party chats.
Interoperable WhatsApp, if you want
On March 6, WhatsApp must activate the first phase of interoperability, through which other applications will be able to connect to WhatsApp to send messages to their users. So it will be technically possible to write from Telegram to a WhatsApp friend (if they implement it in Telegram).
WhatsApp believes that these third-party chats They will be a source of scams and spam and we already know that they will be displayed in a special section of the application and not with the rest of the chats. This may not be a big deal, since discussions with third parties will be optional.
We were able to access several screens that WhatsApp has prepared for interoperability which is to be activated tomorrow and perhaps the most important of all is that you must enable interoperability. That’s to say, If you want to leave WhatsApp as is, only with WhatsApp messagesWill you be able to do it.
Even if you enable third-party chats, you will be able to configure Which apps do you want to receive messages from on WhatsApp?, which will allow you to filter those through which you receive spam, if you receive any. For example, assuming Telegram implements it, if in the future you use third-party WhatsApp chats to talk to Telegram friends, you will be able to block spam messages from PepitoChat.
These two changes will ensure that We can open our WhatsApp as much as we want: a lot, a little or nothing. We’ll still have to wait for the next few days and weeks to see which apps sign up to send messages to WhatsApp and whether or not spam starts or happens.
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