It is quite likely that during this weekend You have received a link to WhatsApp purple mode. A quick search, which I will not reproduce here for obvious reasons, is enough to find a huge list of results, which, thanks to their headlines, promise to reveal a juicy list of new features and exclusive features of this color variant. the classic green WhatsApp that ordinary mortals who use the Meta instant messaging service are subject to.

It’s actually nothing new, In the past we have already seen other versions or modes of WhatsApp like gold, pink and red, which promised improved versions of the original app, but was actually a breeding ground for malware. So, for whatever reason, the color change seems to have been a fairly successful way to attract the interest of many users for some time now, largely attracted by the exclusive features of the new color, of course.

So it is normal for these links that the first links to the new purple WhatsApp or to the tool’s purple mode, have aroused the interest of many people. I myself, I admit, felt somewhere between surprised and intrigued when I first read the reference. Of course, perhaps from experience or perhaps from disbelief, from the first moment I began to imagine that we were actually facing clickbait. And unfortunately I was not wrong.

so then What is this purple WhatsApp that everyone is talking about? Well, I’ll summarize it for you: change the color of the app icon. If that’s all. Use different methods to change the official app icon, the beginning and the end of the story. Purple mode does not exist, changing the icon does not cause any change in the operation of the application and service, and of course it does not activate functions that are not available when the icon is displayed in green.

It is understandable that users feel interested in the alleged special version or mode of WhatsApp, and that malware creators resort to lies of this type is also part of what we can expect. However, the amount of headlines read that talk about “purple mode” accompanied by headlines of “how to activate it”, “what it’s for”, “what it does” etc. It is paradigmatic, for the worse.

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