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You should be setting a two-week auto-delete for all your messages anyway. Archive and backup features in other apps are a massive privacy hole. These chats are
by px43 4y ago
You should be setting a two-week auto-delete for all your messages anyway. Archive and backup features in other apps are a massive privacy hole. These chats are supposed to be ephemeral, if you want long lasting comms that you can search through later, use email.
The idea of any of my contacts logging every message I ever sent to them, and backing them up in clear text on whatever dumb cloud provider they're using this week, is a pretty scary one.
- izacus 4y agoPlease stop telling me and my family what to do with our private messages. If you want to destroy them immediately, that's fine. But stop demanding that Signal destroys pictures and messages my grandmother cares about without her own input. This arrogance is the worst cancer on "privacy" software. Essence of privacy is _control_ over data, not destruction.
- kitsunesoba 4y agoNot sure I agree with this. The problem is I don’t know what I’ll need later until I need it… old messages from months or years ago that I never expected to need have saved me multiple times for a variety of reasons by now. It’s also awkward to try to herd a conversation partner from chat to email at some arbitrary point when you think the conversation is veering in a direction where preservation is important.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoTry sending emails with E2E encryption. Good luck.