Snapchat Will Block Access From Third Party Apps

If you are a Snapchat consumer who is accessing the app by way of a third-party consumer, you might be interested to learn that Snapchat has recently confirmed that they will now be blocking off access from these customers. In accordance to Steve Levy at Backchannel, evidently this is something that Snapchat has been working on for months.

The organization now feels assured that they have made it not possible for third-party applications to accessibility Snapchat information. While Snapchat by no means really published its API, enterprising builders have come up with all sorts of inventive methods to create applications which will assist Snapchat’s attributes, even though no many thanks to some leak from final yr did the danger of utilizing a third-party consumer was fully recognized.

Granted it's always possible that Snapchat themselves could be hacked, but to put your faith in a third-party consumer definitely did not look like the very best idea. The implications of closing off entry to third-party clients also means that users from the BlackBerry ten and Home windows Telephone system will not have the ability to use their apps since there is not an official Snapchat application for the platform at the moment.

Snapchat joins the likes of other messaging applications such as WhatsApp in blocking off accessibility from third-party customers who cited security and the user encounter as being the reason for doing so.