WhatsApp doesn't actually delete messages. They still get delivered afterwards.

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  • purple-gowhatsapp

    Pidgin/libpurple plugin for WhatsApp Web.

    Recently I've been using https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp for accessing WhatsApp from Pidgin. After a contact sends and deletes some messages, when I connect via that plugin, the deleted messages are delivered to me. This means that WhatsApp didn't actually delete messages, and only caused the official clients to show the messages as deleted. The messages were deleted hours ago, and yet they still got delivered.

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