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Alternative Mobile Front-ends: A list of privacy-respecting front-ends to popular online services, including social media, streaming and information services. All of the options here are mobile apps (github.com)
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[โ€“] pglpm@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

First listed: Beeper at beeper.com - closed source ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] Mac@mander.xyz 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

and?

[โ€“] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago

How can we be sure a program respects privacy if it's closed source? Anyone can put any kind of malicious code in a closed source program and nobody would ever know.