Private, for-profit, and let’s not forget antagonistic to the GDPR.

Oh yeah, you can do that too. I just never have it for apps I want to clone.

In the meme, yeah. There are others though:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/

Shelter is a nice FOSS app.

Samsungs also have Secure Folder…

Oh, where to begin. Telegram is wild. It may not be spyware in the traditional sense, but they’ve already handed over data to the Indian government, left a telephone number scraping vulnerability open for the Iranian government, and gotten caught with “the most backdoor looking bug” with their unwisely handmade encryption algorithm.

Their new shopping toolbar is coming next. At least Pocket was universal. The Shopping Toolbar will only be for three websites:

Amazon USA
Walmart
Best Buy

You know, the biggest brick and mortar monopoly, the biggest online sales monopoly, and the biggest tech chain.

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