Why are there good mods for Discord (Aliucord, Vendetta…) and YouTube (Revanced), but no good mods for WhatsApp?
I feel like all apps by the user-stalking company Meta are not modded enough, though they are some of the most-used apps.
Why are there good mods for Discord (Aliucord, Vendetta…) and YouTube (Revanced), but no good mods for WhatsApp?
I feel like all apps by the user-stalking company Meta are not modded enough, though they are some of the most-used apps.
You can pay for Beeper or you can set up the bridges yourself as they’re all open source.
There are Matrix bridges other people host that are free, but I wouldn’t use those. Bridges decrypt and optionally re-encrypt messages, so the admin can read and even modify every message you send.
I’m fairly certain the whatsapp matrix bridge supports end to bridge encryption
It supports WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption and it supports Matrix’s end-to-end encryption, but the two are not compatible.
The bridge receives the end-to-end encrypted messages from WhatsApp, puts them into end-to-end encrypted chats on the Matrix side, and the other way around. The messages get decrypted into memory where they’re readable (for a short while).
Until WhatsApp enables some kind of cross-platform messaging protocol (MLS/MIMI perhaps?), the temporary decryption is essential for the bridge to work.