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===Instant Messaging=== | ===Instant Messaging=== | ||
Instant Messaging is a very difficult topic. There is not a single messenger that can be recommended by all privacy advocates. Whenever someone tells me I should switch to messenger XY someone else shows me a list of privacy flaws of messenger XY. See [ | Instant Messaging is a very difficult topic. There is not a single messenger that can be recommended by all privacy advocates. Whenever someone tells me I should switch to messenger XY someone else shows me a list of privacy flaws of messenger XY. See [https://media.kuketz.de/blog/messenger-matrix.png this image] to see how complicated this topic is. | ||
So I'll just mention two apps that at least don't give your data to the big surveillance capitalists, even if they have flaws. | So I'll just mention two apps that at least don't give your data to the big surveillance capitalists, even if they have flaws. | ||
* '''[https://f-droid.org/packages/org.smssecure.smssecure/ Silence]''' ('''Overall Tip''') is a mobile app for SMS/MMS texting. In their own words - which I wholeheartedly agree with - it is easy, reliable, private, safe and <abbr title="essentially the same as free libre software, but developers who call their software open and not free usually care more about the practicality than the ethics of freedom">open source</abbr>. From silence to silence encryption works flawlessly - which is why I think everyone should use it. Otherwise at least the local storage of received and sent messages is encrypted. | |||
* '''[https://www.signal.org/ Signal] is the perfect chat app to move to from Whatsapp. It works very similarly and is secure and private by default. I recommend downloading it from their site, not from Google Play, even though they recommend the opposite. | |||
* Notable mentions: '''[https://f-droid.org/packages/org.kontalk Kontalk]''', '''[https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.siacs.conversations/ Conversations]''', '''[https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.briarproject.briar.android Briar]''' | |||
===Social Media=== | ===Social Media=== |