WhatsApp is close to rolling out third-party chat support across the European Union, as part its compliance with the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA)…

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    7 hours ago

    I wonder how they’ve choose these platforms. Haiket.com doesn’t even come out by lookin it up on duckduckgo.

    BirdyChat is under limited access. Must wait in waitlist or have an invite from someone already in. Plus they say on their site its “access is limited to professionals”.

    Also, obviously, none of these are foss.

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      Then seems like they may have chosen these platforms because they’re not accessible and thus not threatening, in a malicious compliance way

      Although, giving them the benefit of doubt, perhaps they wanted a low blast radius for their first integration rollout, which is considered good engineering practice.