Sometimes we may encounter messages on the WhatsApp messaging platform that contain links to misleading pages, or even send them ourselves. WhatsApp wants to take action and protect us from possible misleading links through a new feature that it is developing and has included for the first time in the new beta that it has just released for Android devices.
This function, which is not operational at the moment, is the new function of detection of suspicious links, which will analyze the available links in the messages we send and receive through the service, according to WAbetainfo.
In the event that the function detects that a link contained in a message may be suspicious, through its analysis to be carried out locally, without any data being sent to the WhatsApp servers, the link will first be marked with a red tag indicating that it is a suspicious link.
If we still want to access the content of this link, we will get a short dialogue message that will try to make us think twice about it. If we still want to access it, nothing will stop us, assuming our responsibility for not heeding the warnings received.
All that remains is for the new feature to mature sufficiently before it becomes available to all users, by which time we can know its effectiveness.
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