Completely out of topic but,
I just noticed that this post has more comments than upvoted 🤣

:O uhhhhm, Great!! 👍 Don’t mind me, I accidentally wrote a whole blog

I see,
But at this rate, you gonna always make sure whatsapp runs on a VPN AND behind a kill switch so it doesn’t leak,

also maybe you’re interested in using tailscale or netbird to skip the port forwarding / domain hassle so you can connect to your matrix server and use the bridge in minutes.

There’s a new foss netbird client for android if it satisfies.

Cool, especially more so on PWA.
But I’d still recommend having ironfox for general browsing & not throwing privacy to the window.

(You won’t believe it but, I just wrote a blog-size reply and accidently deleted it for trying to put it on a pastebin service…)

Don’t!
Your whatsapp session will expire over time & you gonna need to reinstall it on your phone.
Ether install whatsapp on private space or, if you feel adventurous, selfhost a Matrix-Whatsapp bridge.

Alternatively, convince your socials to use smh foss & more reliable,
Maybe telegram if they insist on mainstream,
It got a foss client but telegram doesn’t enable E2EE by default (Secret Chat).

"Casually reminds you that Ironfox exists & it’s a lot more “private” than most chromium-based browsers, & has ublock origin. (slow by default tho)

also while aurora store doesn’t verifies signatures, is has Exodus integrated which dynamically analyses & warns about spyware, tracks and telemetry so you more caucious about the littered “free” apps…