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The Best Encrypted Messengers in 2024
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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2024
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Another basic thing -- If your messenger is throwing your messages in a notification; it's being logged. Google was found to be logging almost all notification content. Make sure your message app isn't putting the content of messages into notifications.
If the app implements their own notification system and doesn't rely on GCM then Google isn't able to log them as far as I know.
Sure -- but how many of them actually do?
I can throw a few examples:
So, the answer is — almost every of them.
Element X (Matrix client). Basically anything that offers F-Droid or open source release will have builds without built-in notifications. Play Store/App Store builds requires using native notification systems.
Briar just says x private messages
But not Signal? I use Signal but I'm not sure I can get my chat groups to use something else.
Signal has a ton of the dependence on proprietary software. You won't find Signal on F-droid.
Best option is Molly foss
I mentioned Molly — Signal fork. It can show notifications via UnifiedPush or websocket.
I just run it in the background. It pulls almost no battery so it is a non issue.
Also getting it to work with Unified push requires extra effort.
Yeah, configuring a mollysocket requires at least a little self-hosting knowledge.
I would do the same but it uses too much battery for me so I had to figure out how to self-host ntfy and mollysocket.
Conversations does not. Its only optionally available for those really shitty phones that otherwise can't get notifications at all.
Ah, I got it backwards, sorry.