Hopefully, we don’t see bots selling the contact details of Nigerian and Kenyan University students which, as we learnt, are still circulating in different hacker groups. At a fee, you just have to put in a request in the form of a Facebook ID, and the bot will fetch the user’s phone number. Resurfacing for a second time since 2019, a hacker who claims to have access to 533 million Facebook users’ contact information has created a Telegram bot to sell it. It’s $20 per number unless you’re buying in bulk” is quite disturbing and funny at the same time. Now, this is disturbing: I think this Verge headline: “Facebook users’ phone numbers are for sale through a Telegram bot. Something brewing: Look out for a Techpoint Africa’s article on mobile apps that are the major culprits of mass data mining. Who knows, there might be a WhatsApp clone syndrome people do not want to recover from. Maybe, data privacy only mean something to a few after all. To think some people would prefer to stick to an unsafe alternative at a time when people complain about WhatsApp’s updated privacy policy is quite ironic.
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If you can’t even ascertain your data safety on apps that say ‘your data is safe with us’, what happens when you have to download apps from dubious sites? Do the math.Īpart from susceptibility to hacking, your contacts are also exposed to unauthorised access, keeping in mind that you give these clone apps consent to your contact list.
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If anything, that they can’t be found in official app stores for Android and iOS should send an alarm. If you care to know: Using these clone apps is risky.
In fact, at a time in 2020, a report shows that three different WhatsApp clones made the list of top ten mobile apps used in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. But it appears this clamping down hasn’t yielded the much-expected result. In 2019, WhatsApp sent a clear message by temporarily banning these users with the warning not to violate their terms of service. Facebook has at different times warned users to desist from using unauthorised versions of WhatsApp or run the risk of having their accounts banned. WhatsApp’s nemesis: Having illegal duplicates of the most popular messaging app on the globe is unavoidable. Of course, in their defence, people prefer it because of the exclusive features they enjoy, like the recent addition - a feature that allows you to change your voice. The user expressed concern about how using GBWhatsApp is inappropriate, and its users might be endangering other users’ privacy. One of these is the anti-delete feature - when a user deletes a chat or media, it remains for GBWhatsApp users.īack to the ‘why?’ While I can’t ascertain why it trended, I found a related tweet with many engagements on Sunday evening, January 25. These apps give users the allowance to break certain WhatsApp restrictions. GBWhatsApp is arguably the most popular of several WhatsApp’s clone apps available on the Internet - there is FMWhatsApp, WhatsApp Indigo, YOWhatsApp, among others. And that’s only one of the many ways GBWhatsApp contravenes everything Facebook’s WhatsApp prohibits.
‘Status’ was new to WhatsApp, and downloading them from other users is not allowed. I learnt about GBWhatsApp three years ago the number of ‘attractive’ features on the app enticed me. Before talking about the ‘why?’, let’s do something for the uninitiated. Yesterday, GBWhatsApp trended on TwitterNG. Outrage against GBWhatsApp, WhatsApp copycat users Photo by AARN GIRI on Unsplash South Africa set to regulate cryptocurrency.WhatsApp clone, GBWhatsApp Twitter trend.Twitter acquires newsletter startup, Revue.
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