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by TekMol 1741 days ago
The problem here is that the third party controls the software on both ends of the communication. And that software can send the messages to this party without the participants knowingly triggering it.

The article says that by reporting a user, the software on the site of the reporting user silently sends data to WhatsApp. The reporting user does not know what data is sent.

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its not silent, when you report messages there is a prompt that tells the reporter what is happening

take a look https://twitter.com/WABetaInfo/status/1435221936888483847