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Re:ZapFast: A fast, native WhatsApp client in Rust and egui by cowlevel on Sunday November 08, 2026 @01:35AM (#50410949)
I presume if I use this my phone number will be blacklisted from WhatsApp.
Re:ZapFast: A fast, native WhatsApp client in Rust and egui by viraptor on Sunday November 08, 2026 @02:02AM (#50411053)
That's the annoying thing with WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, etc. Let's say I've got a personal client (that I'm definitely not using...) which works so much better than the official one. I cannot distribute it or use it according to their rules. It's forced enshitification, even though we have better options.

On the good side though - if you're replicating the official behaviour close enough... maybe nobody will know. But then you have to make sure everything, including key sort order, and JA4 of requests matches. And that's tough...