Re:How to Bypass WhatsApp Web's Locked Chat Feature
by jillyboel on Friday December 06, 2024 @09:38PM
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Yep, this is why I'm not a fan of WASM. It's going to make debugging/reversing webapps much, much harder while that has always been one of the charms of the web.
Re:How to Bypass WhatsApp Web's Locked Chat Feature
by weikju on Saturday December 07, 2024 @03:36AM
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Also makes learning from other sites much harder, which I think is another fundamental appeal of the web.
Re:How to Bypass WhatsApp Web's Locked Chat Feature
by jwrallie on Saturday December 07, 2024 @12:46AM
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It’s always good to take a look, many things are decided on the client side, and developer tools are part of the browsers anyway.
The other day I wanted to make reservations for a service to send my luggage from the airport to my house in Japan, and the form was giving me errors.
Searching for the error string around I realized there was a timeout set on the client side, so I increased it and could slowly but smoothly fill in all the information that required a server check.
I guess they never bothered to debug their system when accessing it from the other side of the world. All it needed was a few extra milliseconds for the requests to arrive in time.
Re:How to Bypass WhatsApp Web's Locked Chat Feature
by kotaKat on Saturday December 07, 2024 @08:42AM
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A major ISP's "outage check" feature sends all the data back client-side for the actual outage ticket, including circuit IDs, dispatch status, and if the outage is valid for customer credit. I now just hit that API as needed to check when shit goes sideways.
Meanwhile, if you put your ZIP in you just get a little friendly "We're working on it! :)".
I love data firehoses like that.
Re:How to Bypass WhatsApp Web's Locked Chat Feature
by lewisleclerc on Saturday December 07, 2024 @02:05AM
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One of the dating apps with a web interface had a separate API to increment message counts sent to users. Non-premium users could only like profiles or send a limited number of texts. I simply blocked that API and was able to use the app like a premium user
Re:How to Bypass WhatsApp Web's Locked Chat Feature
by emptiestplace on Saturday December 07, 2024 @02:43AM
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Leave some matches for the rest of us, Lewis. :<
Re:How to Bypass WhatsApp Web's Locked Chat Feature
by dizhn on Saturday December 07, 2024 @07:11AM
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Almost the same thing happens on one of the famous online guitar tab playing things and there's a little userscript that "fixes" it.
And then they changed their app to use Unity and WASM, and it's all Assembly-esque in the developer tool.