Signal is no longer requiring phone numbers as of V7, so you could just wait for that to get released.

The OS itself is private because it’s DeGoogled. I also installed GApps because I wanted the convinence of the App store and core feature I’ve been used to for so long.

I also knew the moment I did the google-fication privacy was out the window.

I was fine with LineageOS and would happily go back when my Pixel7a becomes EOL.

While the messages itself are encrypted, the WhatsApp App itself can still collect data from you from the Device your using it on:

• Phone number
• operating system
• associated contacts Etc.

And given this is a Meta owned company, we can probably assume they profile you from that.

Oh nice! Good for them

I looked into WaterFox, but they were bought by an Ad company (System1) a few years back. Because if this, I steered away and found LibreWolf.

That’s a shame. I use FF most of my day for work and I’ve never had any issues like that. I was thinking of add-ons too, but since you uninstalled them all AND it carried to a new installation.

I use Brave for my personal stuff, but Brave has had some dodgy stuff in recent times and I don’t trust other browser’s than FF right now.

Just use Firefox, it’s always been the best out of them for Privacy

Yeah. It’s encrypted in transit and on the servers.

Yeah. It’s encrypted in transit and on the servers.

I don’t see why I would use this over Mega.

Mega comes with a Linux application too which is why I ended up going for that.

Telegram does give secret chats which are E2E encrypted. I do find more use WhatsApp over Telegram though.

WhatsApp is owned by Meta, so although messages themselves are encrypted they’ll still be collecting as much data from you elsewhere.

I prefer to use Telegram, it’s a much nicer experience and offers better UI customisation.

If you had to choose 1, I’d go for where most of your friends/family are as it’ll get the most use.