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beagle3 on Jan 22, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

You are likely to be banned by WhatsApp even if it works for a couple of weeks; they are quite trigger happy if the client is suspect (which has happened with the pidgin plugin before)

pmlnr on Jan 22, 2021 [–]

Not with https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp It connects to whatsapp web, that would be banning people based on their browser.

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