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 ===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 [this image](https://media.kuketz.de/blog/messenger-matrix.png) to see how complicated this topic is.
+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.
-  - <img src="https://silence.im/images/favicon.png" height="16"/> [**Silence**](https://f-droid.org/packages/org.smssecure.smssecure/) (**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://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.
-  - <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Signal-Logo.svg/1024px-Signal-Logo.svg.png" height="16"/> **[Signal](https://www.signal.org/)** (**Overall Tip**) 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.
+* '''[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: , **[Kontalk](https://f-droid.org/packages/org.kontalk)**, **[RiotIM](https://f-droid.org/packages/im.vector.alpha/)**, **[Conversations](https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.siacs.conversations/)**, **[DeltaChat](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.b44t.messenger/)**, **[Briar](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.briarproject.briar.android)**, **[TRIfA](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.zoffcc.applications.trifa)**, **[Session](https://getsession.org)**
+* 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===