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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            5 months ago

            Signal is the only one I know that requires a phone number

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              5 months ago

              WhatsApp, Telegram too.

              Oh, and Discord and a bunch of others dont tell you they require phones. Until their ML system false-positives and locks you out of your account until you auth with a phone number.

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                5 months ago

                Those are proprietary massagers. I though we were talking about secure messaging. When it comes to messages that have a reasonable level of transparency Signal is the only one I know that requires a phone. I’m comparing it to Briar, Simplex chat and Session.