Hmm.

They can put the backdoor in themselves though, see the recent xz backdoor. But the question is whether it would be found out or not.

SimpleX or Briar

Thanks.

Which one?

150MB???

Yeah, sure. But Matrix is decentralized and federated. So you can pretty much join any instance and be able to talk with anyone on any instance. So why not select another instance or maybe even self host one yourself?

edit: didn’t read the text till the end

Ok, the post feels like it’s made by an LLM, that’s why.

Why use an LLM to make this post?

https://adps-project.org/

“functions on android”

You can download the website’s static files then (html, css, images, etc.) but features such as search won’t function if it works by querying some database.

Iirc most browsers have a way to make website’s available offline. I know chromium has it, but firefox does not. You’d probably need an extension for that. Or you can download the static files, store them in a directory manually and then open the index.html with firefox. That should work.

Would you be ok with reading wikipedia?

There’s this app that is for viewing wikipedia pages both online and offline: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.nsh07.wikireader/

To answer your edit: No. They use different encryption algorithms.

Revolut is an option. And hopefully soon we’ll also get GNU Taler, which isn’t exactly a virtual card system, but is a private payment system. The customer is kept anonymous while the seller’s income is transparent.