{"id":245237,"date":"2018-01-18T11:42:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T09:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=245237"},"modified":"2018-01-18T11:43:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T09:43:55","slug":"whatsapp-to-offer-spam-warning-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/245237-whatsapp-to-offer-spam-warning-report.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp to offer spam warning &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is set to roll out a spam warning feature, according to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/whatsapp-to-offer-spam-warning-soon-519419.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Softpedia<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that WhatsApp is testing a method to deal with spam, but it faces a challenge &#8211; encryption.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp&#8217;s messages are encrypted end-to-end, which means the company cannot see what a message contains.<\/p>\n<p>For spam detection, the company will look at how many times a particular message has been sent and the users sending this message.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Users will get a warning if they get what\u2019s considered a spam message,&#8221; stated the report.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/245043-facebooks-big-plans-for-messenger.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Facebook\u2019s big plans for Messenger<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is set to roll out a spam warning feature, according to a report by Softpedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":168223,"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":[16],"tags":[415,2594],"class_list":["post-245237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-spam","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245237"}],"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=245237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245241,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245237\/revisions\/245241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}