My biggest hold-up with that sort of work is that Facebook has previously threatened to ban users who use third-party clients, and then they have gone through with the threat. Is this no longer the case?
There is now a law from the EU, I think it is the DMA, which could change things for people living in the EU regarding interoperability. I haven't read anything about practical follow-ups yet.
By the way, only releasing source code as a blueprint might be fine, that happened before. I might remember it wrong, but it might be lame, the mp3 encoder.
Probably not very detectable for Meta since it uses a wrapped webview, but I've been using ZapZap on Linux for a good while now and I haven't seen a ban yet.
Interesting, my naive understanding is that push notifications won't work and battery life should be greatly affected, how do things work for you?
[2]: In 2020, Facebook shutted down the NYU Ad Observatory by shutting down the Facebook accounts of Cybersecurity for Democracy team members Damon McCoy and Laura Edelson.
[1]: https://12challenges.substack.com/p/how-to-deal-with-receivi... [2]: https://cyber.nyu.edu/2021/08/21/facebook-disables-ad-observ...