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How to Bypass Whatsapp “Message Read” Confirmation

World’s most popular messaging service just got an update today which now sends a confirmation to the other person when a message is read in a conversation. The previously grey tickmarks now turn to blue as soon as a person reads the messages. We found a solution to bypass this! 

This is what the new Whatsapp tickmarks are all about :
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The social pressure to reply to a message might be greater if someone knows if you have actually read a message or not, making some people uncomfortable so instead of all that, we have found a simple solution to avoid making your tickmarks turning blue!
Here’s a trick you can follow to avoid whatsapp sending message read confirmation :

  1. When you receive a whatsapp message while you’re online or on your lock screen, don’t open it at first, let it get received with two grey tickmarks
  2. Switch off all your mobile internet and Wi-Fi
  3. Open whatsapp and read the conversation
  4. close the conversation, come back home and turn your Wi-Fi again


whatsapp read message confirmation bypassThat’s it. This will not send any message read confirmation to the other user and you’re not obliged to reply yet ;)

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