I don’t think so

But it’s Telegram. Avoiding laws, their registered office tells us enough. No encryption (only in a few cases after one’s own initiative). I don’t see a better option.

First of all, Signals code is open. Many people arround the world can check (and they already did) if the messenger lives up to its promises, is secure, private and so on. The others are not. Whatever you think they do, you have to trust a company like Meta. You wanna be that naive?

All those apps collect data: when you are online, where you are online, who is talking to who. Maybe also what you are talking about… we can’t know. For example: Some psychatrists do not use WhatsApp because using such an app in the waiting room would provide Meta with information like ‘you have mental health issues’. Signal on the other hand does verifiable not collect such data.

We also can see bahaviours coming from big companies to direct societies into a direction of their favor. They act like this, because maximum profit and power is what they are working for - they are simply companies. Signal on the other hand is a foundation which aims to provide security, encryption, privacy and fight against censorship (not in terms of content but in terms of countries blocking messenger services). What could be the more trustworthy base?

Btw Signal uses donations to pay their development and Servers so you can use the app for free. What does Meta use to handle costs for WhatsApp, Facebook and so on… Maybe they are charitable 🤞

To name differences:

• No adds
• No tracking
• Local backup (not on Google services or something like that)
• No exchange of personal data like phone number (they use a hash instead)
• You can use a pseudonym in form of a user name to get in contact with others (without telling them your phone number) and you can easily delete it and use a new one
• Signal created the Signal protocol which is called the gold standard, as it is the most secure and to encryption mechanism. They were the first so add resistance against quantum computers

And finally the better question is:
Why should the world use WhatsApp and co and not Signal? They do not have one advantage. If the whole world would use Signal, Threema or similar apps, it wouldn’t lose anything but would win so much. Think about that

/e/ has good but not perfect privacy. It still contains connections to Google and they added a tracking parameter to their update calls.

Their update cycles are very slow. You are usually one to two months behind monthly security updates. Full bulletins are a year behind and Webview is a problem as well. They ignore this point and do not realize, that Insuffizienz security is a privacy risk AS well.

So if you want good privacy with a convenient user experience and without thoughts about security, here you go.

they do alot to protect user privacy (as far as we know)

They do nearly nothing to so. Kuketz has analyzed what’s happening when turning some settings that are bad for privacy off. The result: Apple still phones home with respect to the disabled services.

So please stop throwing wrong information

Startpage.com does not

Session does not have much things in common with Signal. They removed good things and nowadays it is not good headlining when saying ‘fork’.

They changed some fundamentale that werde used for and in Mull so I do not recommend it yet

NewPipe needs VPN or Tor for privacy which usually gets blocked

Oh yes. They don’t know the page… They do know what and what IP.

As /e/ and iodé depend on Lineage, there would be no difference. Only Graphene (Pixel-only) and Calyx (critical) are directly based on AOSP and could thus make a difference

Lineage covers many devices but is not very privacy friendly. It does not include Google integration by default. The ßain advantage is longer software support.

Graphene is most secure and privacy friendly OS and comes with support for sandboxed GApps (optional). Unfortunately it is only made for Google Pixel devices so I’m out.

Depending on your reasons and device you could also check alternatives like /e/.

Them using Discord for cooperation and organization is a bad start. I’m not convinced

Messages are not end to end encrypted and can thus be read from service provider.

Additionally Google is integrated into website.

There is no reason for considering Calyx at all. Graphene and Divest are better in terms of security and privacy.

If one want’s easy and convenient privacy, /e/ might be a valide option. No need for Calyx, Lineage or Iode

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Some Websites use Dnt and we know the discussion about cookie banners. We heared arguments that those are necessary to be GDPR conform. There always was the argument to establish, that sites have to respect the state of the art information ‘Do not trackt’ to illiminate the annoying cookie process. Now this Option is gone.

Not so smart.
And being tracked by this header? Simply activated it be default, Mozilla and there are enough users sharing the same configuration.

Yes it is by at least one famous german website

eMail is affected as well. There is no alternative. And mails are not private if not all participants use end to end encryption

A switch to what? To nothing?