WhatsApp. The company behind the online messaging platform, with the largest number of active online users worldwide, has made a small change that has a very important impact for users. According to those who constantly analyze the messaging platform, WhatsApp has blocked a trick used by many people to check the status changes that their friends constantly make when using the application.
WhatsApp. Until now, if read receipts were turned off, Read Receipts, then all new statuses could be seen by people without the person who publishes that status knowing that it was seen. The engineers at WhatsApp were not too happy with this trick that people use to anonymously see other people's statuses, so they decided to block it completely, and viewing the statuses will also be confirmed for those who publish them .
WhatsApp blocks the trick by which you can anonymously see the statuses of others
WhatsApp. Now, even if you disable Read Receipts to see the statuses of others anonymously, when you reactivate this function, the respective people will receive a confirmation that they have seen them, even if you do not reopen them. Everything is done by WhatsApp directly from its servers to warn people when others are looking at their statuses, which is not so bad, because it is good for people to be notified about what others are seeing.
WhatsApp. Of course, there is no explanation as to the reasons behind the company's decision to stop using this trick, but they probably wanted to stop allowing people to hide what they were doing. It is possible that the change is also related to the new function for advertisements that will soon be introduced within the function Status of the application, so it will be interesting to see how this change will be received by people.