by Andrew Neiman · Published · Updated
Whatsapp got updated with a new awesome feature:
Now u can’t copy, click or forward Telegram’s URL because they are banned:
Well, we don’t want to be haters so we tried another .me or .org links just to test if that was a general failure:
But as you can see, other links are working properly. So it’s not a general failure, it’s a Whatsapp feature.
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This has repercussions, every attitude of Whatsapp can be fatal …
Agree…
Their code isn’t even obfuscated.
The LinkifyWeb class (inside the com.whatsapp.util package) has a method boolean isBadHost(String), which checks the param against an array of regular expressions. That array, called BAD_HOSTS, contains only one regular expression: “(\\W|\\b)telegram(\\.\\w+){1,2}\\z”. That’s about as clear cut as they come.
Actually the APK I got, it obfuscated (both classes and strings), would really love it if you could upload your APK for me, I really want to have a look at some of their code 😉
You can download it directly from WhatsApp site:
https://www.cdn.whatsapp.net/android/2.12.370/WhatsApp.apk
It is, surprisingly, not obfuscated at all!
Thanks Grayson, we are preparing a post with your information 🙂
Here it goes! https://telegramgeeks.com/2015/12/filtered-blocking-code-from-whatsapp/