The popular chat program WhatsApp blocked apparently at least Android links to much smaller competitors Telegram. Users now have noticed that WhatsApp addresses to Telegram.me indeed shows this not turned into clickable links.
The links to Telegram in the Android version of WhatsApp not only no hyperlinks, users can corresponding addresses not copy them into other Apps. In fact thus treated the communications giant WhatsApp with worldwide approximately one billion users a smaller competitor, as if these harmful malware or unwanted advertising is. This behavior was not observed on any Android device, but if it occurred, the strange effect was consistently available, reports The Verge, citing on posts Reddit forum. On the affected equipment both the names of the users as well as links were blocked to individual messages and chat rooms. In the iOS version of WhatsApp the link blockage in short TECH TECH check could not be found.
Telegram confirms the blocking of links by WhatsApp
The little chat provider Telegram confirmed the strange phenomena that apparently began with an unnoticed update. The latest version of WhatsApp 2.12.367 was simply delivered again, declared a user, but has apparently not yet reached any installation on any smartphone. Affected by the measure is also the address telegram.com a completely uninvolved newspaper in the US state of Massachusetts.
Such blockages are quite typical for the WhatsApp owner Facebook - but also very controversial. So Facebook had already in 2010 links to piracy platform Pirate Bay not admitted in his Messenger, as well as any mention of the social network Tsu.com which each user pays for posting a share of the profits. But at WhatsApp the current barrier is the first such action.
It now remains to be seen whether the action rather was a mistake or an attempt to keep the competition small. Telegram sees things left: "After an appropriate Medienecho Facebook backtracked and makes the intelligent filter system responsible for the problem," said a company spokesperson, not without irony. "We expect that this will happen again now." A statement from Facebook or WhatsApp does not exist yet.
The links to Telegram in the Android version of WhatsApp not only no hyperlinks, users can corresponding addresses not copy them into other Apps. In fact thus treated the communications giant WhatsApp with worldwide approximately one billion users a smaller competitor, as if these harmful malware or unwanted advertising is. This behavior was not observed on any Android device, but if it occurred, the strange effect was consistently available, reports The Verge, citing on posts Reddit forum. On the affected equipment both the names of the users as well as links were blocked to individual messages and chat rooms. In the iOS version of WhatsApp the link blockage in short TECH TECH check could not be found.
Telegram confirms the blocking of links by WhatsApp
The little chat provider Telegram confirmed the strange phenomena that apparently began with an unnoticed update. The latest version of WhatsApp 2.12.367 was simply delivered again, declared a user, but has apparently not yet reached any installation on any smartphone. Affected by the measure is also the address telegram.com a completely uninvolved newspaper in the US state of Massachusetts.
Such blockages are quite typical for the WhatsApp owner Facebook - but also very controversial. So Facebook had already in 2010 links to piracy platform Pirate Bay not admitted in his Messenger, as well as any mention of the social network Tsu.com which each user pays for posting a share of the profits. But at WhatsApp the current barrier is the first such action.
It now remains to be seen whether the action rather was a mistake or an attempt to keep the competition small. Telegram sees things left: "After an appropriate Medienecho Facebook backtracked and makes the intelligent filter system responsible for the problem," said a company spokesperson, not without irony. "We expect that this will happen again now." A statement from Facebook or WhatsApp does not exist yet.
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