Users of Whatsapp sending messages using different, unofficial
clients are risking to be permanently banned from the online messaging
service. The information comes from the German website Mobiflip which
received several complaints from users.
A fair share of Whatsapp users send their messages with third-party
apps like Whatsapp+ or WhatsappMD. These apps aren’t available on the
Google Play Store but offer more features than the official
Whatsapp-app. A feature for which many users install the apps is being
able to see the “last seen” status from other users while the user’s
status remains hidden.
Recently Whatsapp started to ban users using third-party
Whatsapp-apps and it appears the company has now started to permanently
block them. Affected users likely received a temporarily ban or warning
before they were permanently blocked.
The permanent block means in practice that Whatsapp blacklists the
banned phone number. Which also makes it impossible to activate and send
messages using the official Whatsapp-app.
The third-party apps are also no longer developed. The developers
ceased development after they received warnings from Facebook stating
their apps violate the Whatsapp user terms.
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