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Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by em3rgent0rdr on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @04:49AM (#16104845)
From what I can tell, all that Browserling is doing is allowing you to browse as if you were on another browser, and the Indian users are simply wanting to access the Whatsapp web app (https://web.whatsapp.com/). That must mean that Jio is somehow preventing its users from fully using that webapp. Doesn't matter that there isn't a native Whatsapp app in FirefoxOS.
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Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by vinw on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:08AM (#16104927)
Whatsapp is doing the blocking. See for example the problems that Vivaldi browser has had

https://twitter.com/vivaldibrowser/status/644173304404836352...

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Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by orf on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:06AM (#16104914)
Perhaps Whatsapp web doesn't support the browser on the phone, rather than some conspiracy to block it?
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Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by skocznymroczny on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:19AM (#16104972)
Whatsapp Web on the phone sounds a bit pointless, because it's not really whatsapp web, it's just a frontend for the mobile app (if you lose connection on your phone, you lose connection on Whatsapp Web).
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Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by em3rgent0rdr on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:15AM (#16104955)
That's probably it. Still my second point that he is actually helping out Whatsapp stands.
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