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I made a spreadsheet that ranks messengers for privacy (privacyspreadsheet.com)

submitted 5 months ago by UnHidden@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've been working really hard to research and rank messaging apps by their privacy. The more green boxes the better.

I plan to turn PrivacySpreadsheet.com into a place for privacy data on everything from cars to video games. It's all open source too on GitHub.

Not trying to advertise, I just put a lot of time into researching all this, and I want to share it since I think others could benefit.

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[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Except Signal UI is... Not good. It feels like using a texting app.

Between the UI and dropping SMS support, I can't get anyone to use it anymore, and people I had using it have moved on.

Dropping SMS is really frustrating - it was the big selling point I had.

[–] ry_@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’m one of those people who thinks SMS has no place in a private messaging app. Signal is the gold standard, and enabling sms merely legitimised this incredibly non private and antiquated messaging protocol.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And gave a constant reminder to people that something better was right there.

And put things in one place.

You're letting perfect be the enemy of good. At least with SMS support I could get people to switch to "this new texting app", and we'd then have a proper Signal encrypted chat. And when they texted someone else, Signal would append the "you could have encryption too" signature, generating a conversation about it.

The people who moved off of Signal went back to SMS entirely. How is that better?

[–] MrRazamataz@lemmy.razbot.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

but it is a texting app...

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

Huge bummer. Kind of understood why they did it but they lost a lot of people because of this.