WhatsApp is the largest messaging platform in the world, with over 2 billion users with iPhone and Android phones globally, its applications constantly benefiting from important updates. Unfortunately, WhatsApp applications also have a vulnerability that is not included in this category by the company, but which allows malicious people to follow us constantly, without us knowing it, although we allow them to do it.
WhatsApp has a feature that allows users to display their activity on the platform, meaning when they are active, they appear to be connected to the platform, and their friends can see that, along with a host of malicious services. These services use the WhatsApp infrastructure to monitor people's activity in the platform, and see when they access the application, and use it every day, and sometimes even when they talk to certain people.
WhatsApp: The Major SECRET Affecting BILLIONS of People
WhatsApp it has this functionality exploited by hackers, including to monitor users' sleep periods, so that a malicious person can find out a lot of information about people. Those at WhatsApp do not consider this to be a vulnerability or a major problem for users, and this is because the system can be stopped at any time by people, but many refuse to do so, leaving their activity to the prey of those bad intentions.
WhatsApp it supports an entire industry that monitors the online activity of people all over the world, an industry that thrives, and generates more and more money every year, by monitoring how people use various applications. WhatsApp leaves to people the choice to block these systems or not, and those who don't, end up having their activity transposed all over the internet, something that is of course not exactly normal, from any point of view.
WhatsApp never wanted, and never will, to block the function that displays the online or offline status of a person, so it remains for each individual to decide what to do to protect themselves, or remain vulnerable.
