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When I install the application, it always asks for taking a picture of a QR code with a smartphone camera. Unfortunately I don't have a smartphone, and I would like to use any of the two applications without owning such a phone.
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You can buy a sim card, borrow someone's smartphone and plug it in, complete the registration, then take out the sim card.
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Is Arch Linux Forums the right place to ask this question? Your question is not Arch specific, not even related to Linux. (e.g. pairing a phone is necessary in windows too)
As an answer for your question: You need a smartphone, for at least whatsapp. Computer clients for whatsapp rely on a smartphone, they are not actual recievers of messages. If the smartphone gets disconected (runs out of battery, loses wifi connection) the computer no longer recieves messages. I do not know Viber, though.
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Yes, it is possible. I did so a few time ago when my phone died. You can do that with an smartphone emulator like geny motion. They are some tutorial on the web for that like, for example (I did not check/test) https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-ru … acks-more/. In my configuration the problem was slowness, even with whatsapp web. The emulator was so slow that I abandoned the idea after "suffering" quite a bit. This may depend on the computer configuration and/or the emulated phone. Maybe emulating a small old phone on a fast desktop may be bearable.
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