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I made a spreadsheet that ranks messengers for privacy (privacyspreadsheet.com)

submitted 9 months ago by UnHidden@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've been working really hard to research and rank messaging apps by their privacy. The more green boxes the better.

I plan to turn PrivacySpreadsheet.com into a place for privacy data on everything from cars to video games. It's all open source too on GitHub.

Not trying to advertise, I just put a lot of time into researching all this, and I want to share it since I think others could benefit.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't think wire is the best privacy wise

[–] clever_banana@lemmy.today 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Very few dont require a phone numbers, so Wire is def in the top 10

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think most don't require phone numbers

[–] clever_banana@lemmy.today 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh boy you're in for a surprise

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Signal is the only one I know that requires a phone number

[–] clever_banana@lemmy.today 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

WhatsApp, Telegram too.

Oh, and Discord and a bunch of others dont tell you they require phones. Until their ML system false-positives and locks you out of your account until you auth with a phone number.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

Those are proprietary massagers. I though we were talking about secure messaging. When it comes to messages that have a reasonable level of transparency Signal is the only one I know that requires a phone. I'm comparing it to Briar, Simplex chat and Session.