WhatsApp is the most popular messaging application on the planet, with over 2 billion active users, beating any other competing application without a right to appeal, but even those of Facebook. Its popularity is very high globally, but not only in developed countries, but also in developing countries, especially in South America or Africa, but there is also a very big problem regarding this platform .
WhatsApp has many users in Africa, but what is not known so far is that a very large part of the internet traffic related to the platform comes from fake, unauthorized third-party versions of the application. In Africa, fake third-party versions of the WhatsApp application are very popular, which contain various modifications intended to provide some functions that the main application does not have, and people use them en masse, installing them mainly from third-party application stores, which I am also insecure.
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WhatsApp it has even more users in these third-party applications than in the case of the official Facebook or Facebook Messenger applications, which is not exactly common in developed countries. People prefer these third-party apps for WhatsApp, despite the risks, because they allow the use of multiple accounts, the sending of larger files, and more precise control over how users are seen by others when using the platform.
“One of the reasons for the high consumption of WhatsApp Mods is the wider range of features offered. "They're obviously a big draw for a lot of people because you can do a lot of things with them that you can't do with WhatsApp," says Bryan Pon, co-founder of Caribou Data, an analytics and insights firm focused. in emerging markets."
WhatsApp is ignored by many people who use the GB WhatsApp application, the most popular third-party version, and in Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria, 230 million sessions have been recorded in recent months. These are three of the largest countries in Africa, and if there this third-party application is so popular compared to WhatsApp, at the level of the continent things are just as bad for Facebook, the official applications being ignored.
WhatsApp tried to block these third-party applications that offer functions that normally shouldn't be available, didn't quite succeed, threatened users with blocking their accounts, but they still remain popular, but also dangerous for both people and the platform .
