This is just xenophobia and political posturing, actual policy is too much to ask.

Firefox with Enhanced Tracking Protection set to Strict and uBlock Origin along with LocalCDN installed.

Android seeing where you’re going is by design, there’s no circumventing that.

Hardly asking for a diagram. But outside of Tor, what do the others offer over Firefox really? So it’s a valid question.

Define privacy, because all of these browsers report each URL you visit to the operating system.

It’s just rebadged Mullvad.

SimpleX will have to return a profit at some point

Isn’t SimpleX VC funded?

Take a look at Migadu. Maybe that fits your criteria. I moved there from Tuta.

Deny it internet access

LibRedirect

A bit disingenuous to call explaining what they’re doing as doubling down.

It’s clearly using iOS design though

Seems to be an iOS app from the screenshots on the Play Store.

It’s shocking how many people just outright ignore UX.

So what’s the replacement?

You want Reolink + Frigate

+1 for Migadu

You live in a town and to get from say the supermarket to the school, everyone cuts across a field. The problem is the field is quite overgrown and while it’s okay in groups, it’s considered dangerous with more than one incident taking place and people still insist on taking the path. The town mayor decided to put lights along the makeshift route that people use and also cut the grass. The residents of the town are mad because they never asked for the field to have its grass cut or for the lights to be put up. The major hopes that their actions will reduce the danger, but only time will tell.

We’re in agreement BTW. But either way, just for the record, I do consider capitalist society broken and want to replace it. But I understand its not going to happen over night and the transition will be less than perfect.

if we’d all donated even a fraction of what its genuinely worth, they probably wouldn’t have to make these kinds of faustian deals

That’s wrong. The creation of PPA isn’t about getting paid, it’s about trying to safeguard the privacy of the average (non tech savvy) user. I don’t understand where this suggestion that this is a means for Mozilla to syphon money, comes from.

The counter argument is that all ads are bad and that we should create an Internet whereby ads don’t exist. Reality says that ads aren’t going anywhere. So rather than let them do what they want with invasive privacy tracking, it’s best to ring fence advertisers and give them enough actionable data to appease. Now you may be thinking, we don’t negotiate with terrorists! But you do, it happens all the time. In this case, it’s giving advertisers enough to leave innocent people alone. As for the not so innocent (people like me and you that run adblockers), this never affected us. People that run adblockers and are upset about this were just trying to manufacture outrage because for whatever reason, they feel that unless Mozilla does that they want exactly, they’re unhappy.

Just to be clear, and I’m probably oversimplifying, this is essentially a bunch of counters, user batch pressed ads on pages about _______ that was above the fold. So advertisers see ads on _____ site got __ impressions and was about _____ placement was above the fold and generated __ hits.

Smarter people that me have explained it in more and exact detail where as I’m just painting a vague picture of a concept to try and convey things.

It refers to people that no a little about something and so assume they know a lot. To suggest that Mozilla PPA has no benefit to the average user is disingenuous at best or outright malicious malpractice with the intent of defamation.

“They made this technology for advertisers, specifically,” says Jonah Aragon, founder of the Privacy Guides website. “There’s no direct benefit to the user in creating this. It’s software that only serves a party other than the user.”

Ah, the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Thank you for such a fair and balanced response. Amazing work.

I’m not sure why material you is important, would you mind explaining a bit more about that?

I enjoy homogenous design across my system. When I gave some of the FOSS alternate front ends to Telegram a try, it really taught me just how much it makes a difference. It’s such a tiny thing but it’s nice to have. It’s one of those things where it’s like the developer cared.

By “No filename preservation for audio files.” do you mean when you download it then it gets changed from its original name or something else?

So me and one of my friends send each other tracks all the time. In Signal they’re all listed as “Voice Message • Sent by XXXXX” it’s just not useful.

Why should a text messenger be fun? It’s a communication tool, not a game…

Because I enjoy speaking to friends, family and lovers and shouldn’t be forced to not enjoy it to make a bunch of old men happy.

The stickers accessed via the sticker button left of the textbox. You can add stickers by going to https://signalstickers.org and click on add stickers. And you can add them some way if you receive a new one from a contact.

Why isn’t this in the UI? Rhetorical question, goes back to old men. Signal is designed by the same type of people that clamour for phones with no front facing camera.

What is a list of links? Links you have sent/recieved previously?

Indeed.

Maaaaybe because it’s focus is privacy, not bells and whistles

Which takes me back to my original post where I’m asking for bells and whistles before I was asked to justify why

Signal is designed for and by a bunch of old men. It’s just not an app that makes being in it fun. Take the implementation of stories for example. Everyone else implemented them as a banner atop the message list, the Signal developers for example hid them away in a tab.

Adding new stickers in Telegram is as simple as open the sticker panel or select a sticker and get recommended stickers. In Signal I haven’t got a clue.

There’s no Material You implementation either.

No list of links.

No filename preservation for audio files.

It clearly serves a purpose and is good at that, but it doesn’t lend itself to being a good messenger for people that want more than privacy.

I went back and edited my posts to be more clear

No material you, but in general the UX sucks.

From https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007320451-Troubleshooting-multiple-devices

Signal can only be used on one mobile device and up to five linked Signal Desktops.​

It’s single Android device

Which of these allow people to add me via telephone number, can run on multiple Android devices, has a wide array of animated stickers and has a great Material You design?

I feel like this is just part and parcel of location based apps and in cities, of course it’s easier to triangulate someone’s location. I still wouldn’t change it as I don’t want to date someone so far away that I don’t see them regularly without incurring excessive expenses. But that’s probably my male privilege speaking and I’ll ultimately defer to the most vulnerable and let them lead the way on this.

Also, for the love of God, break up the Match Group!

That really sucks. I’m sorry to hear that. Community support is huge, especially with rare illnesses. I’m not sure if it will be helpful, but try and search for your illness via hashtags on different mastodon servers. Sometimes things are missing from one server or another. I sadly don’t have any advice for BlueSky. But I wish you luck, everyone deserves to have a community.

How does your engagement compare across all three?

Stories are primary content. In Telegram, Snapchat and all modern messengers, they’ve at the top of the message list. Even in Instagram that’s the case, in Signal, they’re pointlessly hidden because some old men who advocate for phones without front facing cameras spoke loud enough.

For the average person, the ability to run it on seamlessly on multiple devices is more important than storage.

The problem with Signal is that the UX isn’t up to par aesthetically and the problem with SimpleX is that the UX is overly complicated. People want a great chat app first and foremost, privacy is an afterthought.