Reading a lot about people getting banned here for not using the official client, but doesn't Whatsapp have to be interoperable now (at least in the EU due to new legislation) ?

At least Whatsapp itself shows ad banners that you can now connect other messaging clients into Whatsapp, so it should be normal that other clients can equally access Whatsapp.

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lxgr 2 days ago | parent [-]

Officially interoperating with them is extremely onerous, to the point where their mechanism borders malicious compliance, as far as I remember.

In any case, official interoperability is only for third-party messengers communicating with WhatsApp users, not for automation or bots, as I understand, so it's not a replacement for things like this project.

	▲	trashb 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Indeed, more information here: https://developers.facebook.com/m/messaging-interoperability... It seems Meta is able to set some rules about the interoperability making it very difficult for an FOSS implementation to emerge. Additionally organizations like Signal though technically interested in this interoperability have stated they won't lower their security standards for this.