WhatsApp blocks Telegram
Although the first position in the messaging application market seems more than established, the companies behind these tools They are in the middle of war And it is that WhatsApp is not willing to lose their throne of the most used application in the world, and does not hesitate to use some dubious moral techniques to prevent its users from making the jump to other apps, or use your chats to reach them.Or at least that is what emerges after his latest action, with whichwould be blocking the links to the most secure messaging application of the moment: Telegram
The fact has been denounced by the creator of Telegram, Pavel Durov , who states through his official account on the social network Twitter that WhatsApp is blocking links to Telegram That is, it is cutting any connection that can be shared through a WhatsApp message, preventing users from accessing any content that has the term “telegram ” on that link. Something that could do a lot of damage to Telegram, and that doesn't leave the image and company policies of WhatsApp in a very good place either
The key resides in one of the new functions of WhatsApp, introduced in its latest update for the Android platform last week.This is the link preview, or what is the same, show part of the web content to which it is linked in a message so that the recipient of the message knows where it is going to be directed before clicking on it. Something that is useful to avoid loading web pages with uninteresting content Of course, as long as information is displayed.
The problem is that, on Android platform, this function has stopped working when the word Telegram appears in the link. A blocking that could well be intentional, in order to prevent WhatsApp users from accessing Telegram content, or a mere (and curious) bug or failure that prevents the proper functioning of WhatsApp And there is no doubt that WhatsApp don't bother starting a war against Telegram when the difference among the number of users is so remarkableWhatsApp is not likely to lose many of its more than 800 million users worldwide world to join the little more than 60 million that Telegram
In any case, the controversy is already served, and Durov is in charge of noting this possible failure or intentional blocking. Thus, he affirms that WhatsApp has begun to block these links on the Android platform, which translates into an estimate of 80 percent of the users of the messaging application that can't reach the links of Telegram
Now we just have to wait and see if WhatsApp takes action on the matter, whether to activate the preview and unblock links, or to confirm their lockdown policies for Telegram.
