And no IPad version to
Isn't the web version a full client that works without a phone nearby nowadays?
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Yes it is, and because of who owns it, I would even prefer that to an unsandboxed closed source native binary.
Pretty much I'll never understand why people want their webpages to be apps with access to all your shit
It's because the vast, vast, VAST majority of people have no idea that many apps are just showing a website. Also, the app version is almost always more efficient in terms of precious phone screen real estate compared to a browser. Apps also remember who you are so you don't have to login. It isn't hard to understand why people like them.
That said, many apps are horrible from a privacy perspective. But that is largely hidden from the average user, most of whom simply don't think much about online privacy anyway.
I hope the ubiquity of irritating ads are the thin edge of the wedge that gets more people interested in ad-blocking, and then perhaps online privacy more generally.
it is convenient mostly for developers, not people.
But a lot of these apps are electron webpages in application form I'll never understand it
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Yes, but no calls, because apparently a browser doesnt have microphone and speaker support
Whatsapp does their calls over voIP anyways right?
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I wouldn't install it on my system in any case.
Same. No sane linux user should.
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I don’t like WhatsApp, but some people simply refuse to use anything else (“better”) and the web clients can bridge the gap but it’s extremely annoying not being able to answer a call with a person you are texting
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Stop using Facebook products
I'm tired of seeing it
Even if it exists, then it does not have to be good. Look at Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Teams???
I also hate it but unfortunately have to use it for work.
It's a stopgap but Teams for Linux at least gives you Wayland support, choice of seperate window sharing and background filters
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It's a web app, you don't really need a native application for it.
I just use discord via the browser. Why would I allow it to harvest my data as an app?
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Meanwhile in the US and Canada: So, I'll just send an SMS, k?
Stop using that shit
"best i can do is a chromium only web app"
Works in Firefox for me
Facebook couldn't bother making a proper Android app for years. Now you want them to make Linux apps? The likelihood is small...
You shouldn't use this app in the first place. It had many data breaches and it copy everything from Telegram (maybe everyone copies, but I don't use other apps). I only mainly use Telegram and Matrix.
It's impossible to convince that to friends and family. In my country everyone use WhatsApp as primary messaging app . It's kind of like iMessage situation in US
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Why are we installing Whatsapp to begin with?
Where I live everything is on WhatsApp. You want to get ahold of a business: WhatsApp, friends organizing a party: WhatsApp, want to check the traffic: WhatsApp.
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Discord on Linux kinda sucks, though. It's more resource demanding than the Windows version and I can't even stream with audio.
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web.whatsapp.com works really well
edit: It does not do voice or video but I'm OK switching to my phone for those
There are plenty of desktop wrappers available for the Web version. I don't use WhatsApp often but from my experience it seems fairly similar to the Windows desktop app
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Use it in matrix? Or Element One?
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