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Ah yes, the classic "you should have defended yourself better if you didn't want me to attack you"
Except WhatsApp is not the victim here - it's whatsapp's users and facebook seems perfectly fine with allowing anyone to exploit their users' privacy by not dealing with the core of the problem - online indicator.
I don't think there's anything wrong with what this site is doing. It's just aggregating data that a company makes publicly available.