Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to use WhatsApp

Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by bromuro on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @04:27AM (#16104749)

I never understand this 3, 2, 1 comments I see often on reddit ... and on HN ... what do they mean? Is something from the US television?

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Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by unwind on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:12AM (#16104946)

I think so (I'm not from the US), it's in the TV Tropes set: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThreeTwoOne.

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Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by deepakkarki on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @04:45AM (#16104828)

It's more like a countdown to tell how quickly something is going to happen. In this case whatsapp blocking browserling.

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Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by bromuro on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:16AM (#16104957)

And is the countdown supposed to make the comment funnier or what? I was supposing a joke from a tv show or something else I don’t get.

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Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by tqkxzugoaupvwqr on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:34AM (#16105038)

The countdown simply means “quickly”, “in no time” or “very soon”. You can read the comment as “This gets blocked on WhatsApp’s end very soon.”

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Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by jccalhoun on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @08:51AM (#16106098)

no, it isn't a reference to a specific thing.

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Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by peteretep on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @03:30AM (#16104498)

Why would it? It seems like lots of additional WhatsApp users, but they don't need to support a shitty phone.

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Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by ec109685 on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @04:39AM (#16104804)

This guy has access to all of WhatsApp credentials that flow through his virtual browser.

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Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by em3rgent0rdr on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @04:22AM (#16104725)

I don't see why WhatsApp would want to block...rather it is the Jio phone company that sees this as a threat to Jio's own messaging app.

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Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by v1nc on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @07:53AM (#16105778)

Do you really think WhatsApp doesn't work on phones like Jio because WhatsApp doesnt has enough capabilitys to support it ? WhatsApp actively blocks phone models that doesn't fit in their needs. WhatsApps first priority is blocking chat-/spambots, because they are only making money with selling access for companies. To enchant the bot detection, the WhatsApp API needs to get more and more complex. If a older or cheaper phone doesn't support the complex API anymore, botblocking is more important than backwards compability. It follows that great tools like the Matrix bridge never will working with WhatsApp.

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Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by em3rgent0rdr on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @03:52PM (#16109925)

I don't know for sure why it doesn't work on Jio phones. What you said makes sense, though.

WhatsApp should be able to figure out a way to perform human user detection on these cheap phones. What type of API does FirefoxOS lack?

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