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Is there any WeChat alternative available in China that supports end-to-end encryption?

• _hzw 6y ago
  Not that I am aware of. Only alternative is iMessage, but if you enable "Messages in Cloud", your data will be backed-up to "Guizhou-Cloud" and they might or might not be encrypted there.
• godelski 6y ago
  WeChat alternatives? I don't think there's even any alternatives to that in any form. But for messaging there are still apps that support e2ee that you can use in the mainland.
  • angio 6y ago
    > WeChat alternatives? I don't think there's even any alternatives to that in any form. ByteDance (the same company as TikTok) launched feiliao [0, 1] last year to compete with WeChat but I don't think they gained much market share. Also, it obviously has no end to end encryption for chats. [0] https://www.feiliao.com/ https://www.feiliao.com/ [1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/19/bytedance-flipchat/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/19/bytedance-flipchat/
    • godelski 6y ago
      Well I guess I'm wrong, although not in a meaningful way. But interesting to know that there's at least one competitor out there.