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Meta made it official yesterday that WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger will be interoperable with other messaging apps. At the behest of the European Union, the company was forced
Meta made it official yesterday that WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger will be interoperable with other messaging apps. At the behest of the European Union, the company was forced to make the necessary changes to allow cross-messaging.
Problem? Finding compatible apps won’t be as easy or fast, because the deadlines set by Meta are important. That’s all the company has revealed about compatibility with other apps.
In order to comply with the new Digital Markets Act (DMA), which came into force today, March 7, Meta made changes to WhatsApp and Messenger opening the door for these two applications to work together with third-party messaging services.
The company explains that other providers will be required to meet the necessary requirements in order to work with its services. These will have to do with end-to-end encryption. In case of WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, E2EE Signal is used. However, Meta explains that there will be some flexibility.
To maximize user security, we prefer third-party providers to use Signal Protocol. But because this needs to work for everyone, we will allow third-party providers to use a supported protocol if they can demonstrate that they offer the same security guarantees as Signal.
According to Meta, WhatsApp technical architecture has been simplified.
Meta also states that when a request is received for a service to interoperate with its applications, The process may take more than three months rather than leaving the functionality “public”.
Third-party clients will connect to WhatsApp’s own servers using messaging protocols, allowing the user to receive instant notifications even if they come from another messaging app.
In short, there are still applications that allow message passing via WhatsApp. It will be a slow process depending on the deals Meta has with other companies. However, this is good news: the doors are open and in the future we will have a more complete application rich in possibilities.
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