Tomorrow is the day WhatsApp will change forever. March 6 It is the day when the obligations imposed by the European Commission on gatekeeper applications such as WhatsApp come into force.

For this reason, WhatsApp should open its chats to third party applications for the first time in its history. It seems that the application is already ready for this and although it does not disappear, it will warn us that it will be a door for spam. We confirmed that we, as users, can choose whether we want to enable third-party chats.

Interoperable WhatsApp if you want

WhatsApp should be activated on March 6 first stage of interoperabilityIn this way, other applications will be able to connect to WhatsApp and send messages to their users. So it will be technically possible to write to a WhatsApp friend from Telegram (if they implement it in Telegram).

WhatsApp ensures that these third-party chats They will be a source of scams and spam and we already know that these will be shown in a special section in the app, and not along with other chats. Perhaps this isn’t such a big deal since third-party chats will be optional.

We were able to access a few screens that WhatsApp has prepared for interoperability, which should go into effect tomorrow, and perhaps most importantly, you need to enable interoperability. So, If you want to leave WhatsApp as is, only with WhatsApp messagesWill you be able to do this?

Even if you enable third-party chats, From which applications do you want to receive messages on WhatsApp?, which allows you to filter who you receive spam from if you receive it. For example, assuming Telegram implements this, you will be able to block spam messages from PepitoChat if you use third-party WhatsApp chats to talk to your Telegram friends in the future.

These two changes will: We can open our WhatsApp as much as we want: a lot, little or nothing. We’ll have to wait in the coming days and weeks to see which apps sign up to send messages to WhatsApp and whether spam begins.

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