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Stop wasting effort and block all facebook ads with this one weird trick. Slop devs hate him!
I blocked all those on the router-side for a while. Suddenly I couldn’t take calls on WhatsApp anymore. Makes you wonder, dunnit?
I also only have one friend left who I can’t get to move to Signal. Motherfucker is gonna get an ultimatum from me soon, I’m tired of Meta and their shit.
It isn't too surprising that some things get routed over general domains that the company already owns. Probably the facebook domain since they bought WhatsApp way before they rebranded to meta.
This for once isn't anything malicious. Dunno if I would call it best practice, but they probably don't intend to unbundle WhatsApp in the near future.
WhatsApp is literally made by the same people as Facebook, why are you surprised? Signal is great!
Careful, this is how you make the key cards to the server room stop working 😆