I’d also prefer services that requires no phone number. However, in the end it’s not really a concern for the vast majority of people. In the context we usually live almost everyone uses privacy invasive services. so if a person ditch services like WhatsApp for Signal it’s a win. It’s highly unlikely that a regular Joe who doesn’t know a squat about privacy and security is going to use more private services like matrix,session, briar etc.
Signal it’s quite good in this area, the initial setup and GUI it’s quite equal to WhatsApp, E2EE is on by default and doesn’t require any additional user interaction, the metadata collected is minimized etc.
I’d also prefer services that requires no phone number. However, in the end it’s not really a concern for the vast majority of people. In the context we usually live almost everyone uses privacy invasive services. so if a person ditch services like WhatsApp for Signal it’s a win. It’s highly unlikely that a regular Joe who doesn’t know a squat about privacy and security is going to use more private services like matrix,session, briar etc.
Signal it’s quite good in this area, the initial setup and GUI it’s quite equal to WhatsApp, E2EE is on by default and doesn’t require any additional user interaction, the metadata collected is minimized etc.