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Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by henryskywalker2003(op): 11:54pm On Mar 05, 2015

Users of Whatsapp sending messages using different, unofficial clients are risking to be permanently banned from the online messaging service. The information comes from the German website Mobiflip which received several complaints from users.

A fair share of Whatsapp users send their messages with third-party apps like Whatsapp+ or WhatsappMD. These apps aren’t available on the Google Play Store but offer more features than the official Whatsapp-app. A feature for which many users install the apps is being able to see the “last seen” status from other users while the user’s status remains hidden.

Recently Whatsapp started to ban users using third-party Whatsapp-apps and it appears the company has now started to permanently block them. Affected users likely received a temporarily ban or warning before they were permanently blocked.

The permanent block means in practice that Whatsapp blacklists the banned phone number. Which also makes it impossible to activate and send messages using the official Whatsapp-app.

The third-party apps are also no longer developed. The developers ceased development after they received warnings from Facebook stating their apps violate the Whatsapp user terms.

Culled from http://www.myce.com/news/whatsapp-now-permanently-bans-users-using-third-party-apps-75246/

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Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by henryskywalker2003(op): 11:55pm On Mar 05, 2015*

I guess this means it will affect of 9ja users cos many here use Whatsapp+ more than the official client.

**Edit**.
So this is what it feels like to make frontpage and 1st to comment at the same time. Mscheew.... Was expecting to see the heavens open and angels descending, singing hallelujah. Very anti-climatic

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Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by pelboy: 12:24am On Mar 06, 2015

Dem no fit ban me lailai grin

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Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by Nobody: 12:35am On Mar 06, 2015

they don't know, we buy SIM in Nigeria like no-man-business cheesy

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Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by henryskywalker2003(op): 12:54am On Mar 06, 2015*

@Pelboy, Don't be so sure o.

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Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by henryskywalker2003(op): 2:03am On Mar 06, 2015

@Shadowgwalker, Hahaha. And will you keep buying sims as the block it simply to chat on whatsapp when you can easily move to telegram?

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Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by W3xy1(m): 2:12am On Mar 06, 2015

Okay o

Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by Warlord3000(m): 5:01am On Mar 06, 2015

Bye bye whatsapp+

Am now a born again Whatsapp convert cheesy

I love my number wink

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Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by Nutase: 6:56am On Mar 06, 2015

Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by Nobody: 7:05am On Mar 06, 2015

Wow

Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by adrainuche(m): 7:05am On Mar 06, 2015

Monopoly

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Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by hucienda: 7:05am On Mar 06, 2015

Hope they don't ban my ranch customers sad

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Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by TI1919(m): 7:06am On Mar 06, 2015

Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by Nobody: 7:06am On Mar 06, 2015

Noted

Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by Nobody: 7:07am On Mar 06, 2015

The funny thing is I had never heard of whatsapp+ or any of the other third party apps until i read this article. I like whatsapp as is.

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Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by dexterinc2003: 7:07am On Mar 06, 2015

Thumbs up

Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by modextus(m): 7:08am On Mar 06, 2015

2go here I come... enough of whatsapp forming... when whatsapp turn NL we dhe give Pesin life time ban...

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Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by xmich(m): 7:08am On Mar 06, 2015

Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by IAMBREEZY: 7:08am On Mar 06, 2015

Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by efilefun(m): 7:09am On Mar 06, 2015

Them don dey spoil business for the bros...lol

Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by drey08(m): 7:09am On Mar 06, 2015

we go crack am angry

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Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by pamcode(m): 7:09am On Mar 06, 2015

no qualms am law abiding

Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by MUMINATED(m): 7:10am On Mar 06, 2015

Whatsapp ko whatsapp ni...i rep #2go cool

Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by eldnix: 7:10am On Mar 06, 2015

Gu4dem

Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by kowema(f): 7:10am On Mar 06, 2015

To what purpose?, Their money dey loss?

Re: Whatsapp Now Permanently Banning 3rd Party App Users. by horlabiyi(m): 7:10am On Mar 06, 2015

This is the first and only time I'm hearing about third- party apps works on whatsapp. Is there any internet enable phone that doesn't support whatsapp? I don't really understand