An international group of plaintiffs is suing Meta, alleging that WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption isn’t actually private. Lawyers are asking the court to certify a class-action.
An international group of plaintiffs is suing Meta, alleging that WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption isn’t actually private. Lawyers are asking the court to certify a class-action.
One thing it sure as hell doesn’t encrypt is the links in your messages. They’re clearly sent to Meta to be ‘unfurled’. You can tell because sometimes a zoom like will unfurl to ‘too many requests try later’ so it’s obviously being done by some massive bot.
By unfurl, are you referring to OGP metadata? That’s pretty common and used by a lot of non-Meta software. That’s probably loaded by your Whatsapp client directly.
Btw, I’m not saying Meta doesn’t read your links. Anyone who thinks Whatsapp is actually private is an idiot.
Yeah that’s it. If it ran locally it wouldn’t regularly show ‘rate limit exceeded’ messages. Its happening because it’s running server side in meta land.