{"id":147985,"date":"2015-12-01T09:58:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T07:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=147985"},"modified":"2015-12-01T10:00:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T08:00:35","slug":"whatsapp-blocking-links-to-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/147985-whatsapp-blocking-links-to-telegram.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp blocking links to Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp users have reported that the app is\u00a0blocking links to competing chat app Telegram.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Telegram\/comments\/3utvyq\/whatsapp_playing_low_really_low_cant_clickcopy\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A Reddit member said<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0WhatsApp was playing \u201clow, really low\u201d by restricting the ability of users to click or copy Telegram URLs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/11\/30\/9819460\/whatsapp-telegram-link-block-copy-paste\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Verge highlighted<\/strong><\/a> that the Telegram links still appeared as messages, but that they did not register as hyperlinks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsers were blocked from copying them to paste into another app &#8211; effectively treating them like malware or spam,\u201d said The Verge.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on WhatsApp<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/147721-cell-c-whatsapp-billing-complaint.html\"><strong>Cell C WhatsApp billing complaint<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/136612-new-cheap-whatsapp-bundle-from-cell-c-launched.html\">New cheap WhatsApp bundle from Cell C launched<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/147659-two-matric-exam-papers-leaked-on-whatsapp.html\">Two matric exam papers leaked on WhatsApp<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp users have reported that the app is blocking links to Telegram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":147987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,23753,2594],"class_list":["post-147985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-telegram","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148019,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147985\/revisions\/148019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}