Privacy Guides
In the digital age, protecting your personal information might seem like an impossible task. We’re here to help.
This is a community for sharing news about privacy, posting information about cool privacy tools and services, and getting advice about your privacy journey.
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Additional Resources:
- EFF: Surveillance Self-Defense
- Consumer Reports Security Planner
- Jonah Aragon (YouTube)
- r/Privacy
- Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List
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Yes, that is one of many potential alternatives. Many others can be run on a variety of servers, with a variety of apps.
Sure, but most people these days are expected to have email, and signing up isn't any more complicated than that. It's not that hard.
You send them the video in OP. Or try to send them literally any video via SMS. Someone sent me a video of their kids singing happy birthday for me. It was a really beautiful moment lived through the lens of a potato.
Yes,but smaller market share means less optimistic future, or not enough incentive to continue the project, or harder to convince someone to use it.
Signing up isn't the hurdle... Convincing someone they should install a second app for messaging when nobody they know uses it would be a bigger challenge.
Google and Apple teaming up would effectively eliminate basic SMS, but that likely wouldn't solve issues like privacy or data ownership.
Dude, I went on a mission to convince the people I know to move away from corporately owned email and to use a private provider. It was excrutitingly difficult, and I don't think a single person switched.
Family would constantly "not get it" and continued to email my old email address, too, like they thought this was a phase. lol. It was insane.
Personally, I find switching messenger providers to be more difficult than email, so I'm not hopeful that someone would convert without having some strong motivations first.
Optimism in terms of user adoption? Sure. But these are your choices. I understand your apprehension. You can choose the "easy" button and let the corpos continue to silently abuse you, and be complicit in their abuse of others, or you can take a few minutes to learn something new and convince others to do the same, and try to be part of the solution.
Yep, people did that to me too. I deleted the old email address. Their IG and FB messages also stay on unread. Some of them I even blocked. When their emails bounced and I didn't give them a new one, they logged into Signal and started messaging me there. When my Dad would forward me whatever new business scams he would come across, I would ask my Mom to ask him to send them over Signal and then I would entertain his delusions.
Depends on which one, but I will respectfully disagree.