The cynic in me immediately thinks this is so Facebook can further connect your activity to sell
The owner of what’s app is enough to keep me off it.
Probably, I mean the reason most people pop a 2nd SIM in their phone is for registering on websites where they’d rather not have their main number cross-referenced and datamined. This can be anything from Amazon to personal ads sites.
But the moment you give in to the temptation to register than 2nd number with Whatsapp Meta will be able to figure out from your contacts who you are and associate it with the main number.
What a time to be alive
Ah yes. Now meta will know the high profile business guy behind account A also browses kiddy porn via account B. Well played.
I’ve been using 2 accounts on my phone for years. I had no idea this was something enabled by Samsung and not by WhatsApp.
That’s called app cloning and it’s accomplished by the phone manufacturer keeping two copies of Whatsapp that each see a different phone number. Presumably you have a dual SIM phone.
For dual sim phones I guess?
Not necessarily, they’re also allowing people with two single-sim phones to associate both numbers with the same WhatsApp account.
Which like the other comment said makes me suspect they’re really after collecting people’s 2nd numbers, in whatever shape or form (2nd phone, 2nd SIM, 2nd eSIM etc.)
work/private?
I just want the ability to turn off WhatsApp.
Like on a Sunday morning let me kill all notifications and calls.
Just add proxy to something that leads to nowhere to block WhatsApp from connecting anywhere.
Please could you point me in the right direction on how to do this / an app I would need. Thanks.
Adding proxy is a native feature in WhatsApp.
- Go to Settings > Storage and Data > Proxy.
- Add 127.0.0.1 in the IP address and add a random port too.
- When you want to disconnect WhatsApp from the internet, just turn on the proxy. To reconnect, turn it off.
Doesn’t let me click the big green button to submit. Nothing happens. No matter what ip and port (port being optional it says)
That’s strange. Try 192.168.1.100
