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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by tiagoespinha on Sunday February 11, 2018 @08:18AM (#16352562)
Your phone connects to WhatsApp's servers. So does your laptop. The bridging is likely done server-side. I assume this is done because WhatsApp is (probably) using end-to-end encryption, so everything must be ran by your phone (which is the only place where your private key is stored) in order to encrypt the messages.
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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by JosephRedfern on Sunday February 11, 2018 @10:00AM (#16352909)
It works impressively well, though -- I use it far more than I do the mobile client directly.
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