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What would the smart alternative to WA be? Telegram? Line? How can I continue using the WA without giving Facebook sth to work with? Please bear with me if thi
by Swaglord333 6y ago
What would the smart alternative to WA be? Telegram? Line? How can I continue using the WA without giving Facebook sth to work with?
Please bear with me if this doesn't belong here. Normally I wouldn't dare posting on HN (don't want it to become mainstream and have idiots like me gush out their opinions) but I really dunno who else to ask this.
- chrisballinger 6y agoSignal: https://signal.org/ https://signal.org/
- 7v3x3n3sem9vv 6y agoAgree with the other guy suggesting Signal. It's basically WhatsApp, owned by non-profit so that it can't be sold to a for-profit. They've been subpoenaed and the only data they could provide for a user was the phone number that was registered, the first day that number registered and the most recent day the phone number contacted their servers. I would suggest reading through their blog posts if you're curious about all the work they're putting into ensuring that they collect as little data about their users as possible. they truly are innovating in a field where nobody else seems to care about ensuring privacy first. This does come at a cost to how quickly user-facing features arrive compared to their competitors, but this is because they think through where you may leak data and engineer a way around it before allowing a feature to go through. That said, at this point it's pretty much at feature parity with WhatsApp, so moving over to it would be a great time to do so.