<story><title>Getting Started with Signal</title><url>https://www.justingarrison.com/blog/2021-01-11-getting-started-with-signal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>suyash</author><text>Here is how I rate them now:&lt;p&gt;1. Worst Offender : Facebook Messenger --&amp;gt; spyware for tracking all your activities even in background&lt;p&gt;2. WhatsApp : Lost trust in it since Facebook bought it, more so with the new terms and conditions. Data is not safe anymore.&lt;p&gt;3. Telegram : Trust it&amp;#x27;s privacy but it&amp;#x27;s proposed business model is also advertisement based so avoiding it.&lt;p&gt;4. Signal : Best option, there are some sacrifices to be made with lack of contacts and some features but slowly and surely we can turn the tide. Also it&amp;#x27;s open source funded by a Non-Profit so that gets it bonus points.&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;9to5mac.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;app-privacy-labels-messaging-apps&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;9to5mac.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;app-privacy-labels-messaging-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikece</author><text>Even better is Wire: no phone number required, doesn&amp;#x27;t access your contacts, free personal accounts available, you can use it on a desktop machine with nothing more than a web browser, when using an installed app you can be logged into three Wire accounts at the same time, source code is open source and has been audited for security, you can set up your own locally hosted (or in your own cloud)... and more I&amp;#x27;m probably forgetting.</text></comment>
<story><title>Getting Started with Signal</title><url>https://www.justingarrison.com/blog/2021-01-11-getting-started-with-signal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>suyash</author><text>Here is how I rate them now:&lt;p&gt;1. Worst Offender : Facebook Messenger --&amp;gt; spyware for tracking all your activities even in background&lt;p&gt;2. WhatsApp : Lost trust in it since Facebook bought it, more so with the new terms and conditions. Data is not safe anymore.&lt;p&gt;3. Telegram : Trust it&amp;#x27;s privacy but it&amp;#x27;s proposed business model is also advertisement based so avoiding it.&lt;p&gt;4. Signal : Best option, there are some sacrifices to be made with lack of contacts and some features but slowly and surely we can turn the tide. Also it&amp;#x27;s open source funded by a Non-Profit so that gets it bonus points.&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;9to5mac.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;app-privacy-labels-messaging-apps&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;9to5mac.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;app-privacy-labels-messaging-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arnoooooo</author><text>What about Element &amp;#x2F; Matrix ? It&amp;#x27;s ahead of Signal in usability, and much more future-proof.</text></comment>