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.

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      11·
      5 months ago

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

      • clever_banana@lemmy.today
        2·
        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.

        • Possibly linuxEnglish
          1·
          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.