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YSK: Signal is a great secure private messenger app comparable to others on the market.
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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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Is this an ad? It feels like an ad.
Anyway I much prefer Signal but thanks to boomer co-workers I'm still also forced to use Whatsapp.
It's an ad and it's not even subtle about it.
Isn't Whatsapp encrypted end to end?
Facebook owns it.
That doesn't bother me as long as the messages are encrypted end to end.
It does matter who’s telling you that you’re safe trusting them.
I hear what you're saying and I'm not trying to promote Whatsapp, but want to note that backups do offer encryption. They did not use to and I believe it is off by default, however.
I hear your point as well. I just innately don’t trust Facebook. I can’t help but feel like, while they put out a public idea of their work, there is very much some secret shit they keep hidden, and it’s all the worst shit you can expect from someone with their hands on the data and power they have their hands on.
Personal choices. I can’t trust FB. Although, I don’t live in Europe or South America, so I have the option to avoid WhatsApp. When I lived in both of those other places, WhatsApp was basically texting because it was free, whereas actual texting is expensive (maybe that’s changed, but WhatsApp is ubiquitous in other countries unlike it is in the US).