purple-gowhatsapp on Fedora

[Ranjan Maitra]

Hi,

Does anyone have any experience with https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp on
Fedora? Any recommendations? I like Pidgin though I do not use it much any longer (have
not for 10 years, I would guess).

Thanks,
Ranjan


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[Ranjan Maitra]

On Mon, 18 May 2020 09:24:20 -0500 Ranjan Maitra <maitra(a)email.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>  Does anyone have any experience with https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp on
> Fedora? Any recommendations? I like Pidgin though I do not use it much any longer (have
> not for 10 years, I would guess). 
As an update, I downloaded, installed and tried it. Here is what I did (the instructions
were not very clear but can be inferred):

Installed golang and libpurple-devel from the F repos.

make update-dep
make
mv libgowhatsapp.so ~/.purple/plugins/

Then followed the instructions from there on.

It works, more or less, all right, for now.

Good: no need to get franz going. I like Pidgin as I said.

Ranjan

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 09:24 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  Does anyone have any experience with https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp on
> Fedora? Any recommendations? I like Pidgin though I do not use it much any longer (have
> not for 10 years, I would guess). 
How is this better than using web.whatsapp.com?

poc

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Mon, 18 May 2020 17:58:55 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:

>  On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 09:24 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > Does anyone have any experience with https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp
> on Fedora? Any recommendations? I like Pidgin though I do not use it much any longer (have
> not for 10 years, I would guess).
>
>  How is this better than using web.whatsapp.com? 
It is simpler and part of the unified interface provided by pidgin. I have not used
WhatsApp Web but I assume that it requires the browser to be kept running. It certainly is
good to have this option.

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 14:59 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>  On Mon, 18 May 2020 17:58:55 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  
>  > On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 09:24 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>  > > Hi,
>  > > 
>  > > Does anyone have any experience with
> https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp on Fedora? Any recommendations? I like
> Pidgin though I do not use it much any longer (have not for 10 years, I would guess).
>  > 
>  > How is this better than using web.whatsapp.com?
>  
>  It is simpler and part of the unified interface provided by pidgin. I have not used
> WhatsApp Web but I assume that it requires the browser to be kept running. It certainly is
> good to have this option. 
I always have a browser running anyway, I don't use pidgin, and the web
interface requires no installation, so that works better in my case.

poc

[Tim]

On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 17:58 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  How is this better than using web.whatsapp.com? 
That's about the same as asking:  How is using Evolution better than
logging into a webmail page?

Using a large, and always very buggy, web browser to do chat is
unwieldy.  But, using a small, separate, chat program is easy to do at
the same time.  You don't have to flip out of the page you're reading
to chat.

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[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2020-05-19 at 16:12 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
>  On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 17:58 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  > How is this better than using web.whatsapp.com?
>  
>  That's about the same as asking:  How is using Evolution better than
>  logging into a webmail page?
>  
>  Using a large, and always very buggy, web browser to do chat is
>  unwieldy.  But, using a small, separate, chat program is easy to do at
>  the same time.  You don't have to flip out of the page you're reading
>  to chat. 
True enough. I guess I'm just used to it. I also use both webmail and
Evolution according to the specific case.

poc

[Jonathan Billings]

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 04:12:37PM +0930, Tim via users wrote:
>  On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 17:58 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  > How is this better than using web.whatsapp.com?
>  
>  That's about the same as asking:  How is using Evolution better than
>  logging into a webmail page?
>  
>  Using a large, and always very buggy, web browser to do chat is
>  unwieldy.  But, using a small, separate, chat program is easy to do at
>  the same time.  You don't have to flip out of the page you're reading
>  to chat. 
Plus, WhatsApp is owned by Facebook, who isn't exactly known for
digital privacy.  Unless you're running WhatsApp in a completely
contained web browser that shares no user metadata with the rest of
your browsing session, there's the risk that Facebook will be
monetizing your chat interface by selling your browsing data to ad
networks.  On top of that, cross-site attacks are pretty common for
those kinds of chat services.

Running it in a separate app means that the only thing they can sell
is your chat history and not the other web sites you browse.

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