Friendly reminder:
People, stop using #Meta, #Google, and other #BigTech Apps that make YOU the product!
There are already so many right-wing governments.
You compromise your current or at least future security (e.g. profiling using LLMs.)
Use #Threema or #Signal instead.
#DeleteWhatsApp
#DeleteThreads
#DeleteFacebook
#DeleteInstagram
#DeleteTwitter
#DeleteTikTok
#DeGoogle your Android phone
Data collection comparison of messenger services (found on the web):
@HistoPol @smallcircles You can't use original Signal on the degoogled devices due to the "hardcoded" google-services dependencies in the app code.
Okay, there are some modded Signal versions with google crap removed, but still that's a "third-party" work - you can't be sure of what exactly is in the code inside. There's no warranty that someone doesn't compromised the app code. We have a few good example of troianised apps in the Samsung and Huawei store with over a million counted downloads.
Thanks for pointing this out.
An alternative app must run on Android and Apple to be acceptable, non-exclusive for the general public.
For me, not fond if the #RottenApple and its data practices and lock-in policies, #Signal will not be a solution in its current version, then.
I think I read that #Threema doesn't suffer from this issue?
@gorky @HistoPol 2/2 Luckily there is a workaround. You can use patched signal fork called "Langis" together with the ntfy (alternative notification system/api) and extra "for signal" patched microG version. Such combo will allow you to have and use 100 percent identical in the terms of functionality signal on the degoogled devices and your account won't be banned.
It doen´t matter which version/fork you use from Signal!
Since Signal's entire traffic runs over the clouds of Amazon, Google, Microsoft & Cloudflare.
All US services can pick up your meta data directly from there, thanks to the CloudACT:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
Only Threema does NOT store any metadata nor IP-Adresses.
Thank you very much for pointing this out. This was exactly what the comparison table seemed to be "telling" me and what I read (indirectly) in a couple of articles.
Not sure about Telegram, as the operational server is in the UAE, and this has already caused some issues with foreign intelligence services, who did not seem to get the data they wanted, but authoritarian regimes are definitely no better.
There is, however, another Swiss and a French solution,...