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Pidgin used to work great with gtalk, then Google broke the standard. I guess there's always a fear of that when using a third party client.
by nichos 6y ago
Pidgin used to work great with gtalk, then Google broke the standard.
I guess there's always a fear of that when using a third party client.
- abiogenesis 6y agoGoogle can always change the protocol and stop supporting a native client too.
- pheug 6y agorclone uses google drive's APIs to talk to them
- pmontra 6y agoAnything can happen. We're always at the mercy of the busines decisions of our technology providers. In this case Google can keep the protocol stable and stop supporting the client to the point it stops working after an update of your distro. If you want to be nearly 100% safe you self host whatever the price and the time you have to pour in. Personally I use Syncthing over my home network.