Does anyone have recommendations for p2p messaging apps which don’t collect any of your data and sell to advertisers?
I feel like I remember someone sharing one a while ago but I can’t find it anymore.
Bonus points if it’s available on MacOS, and extra for having a profile space for sharing photos and videos.
Briar and GNU Jami are the best privacy friendly P2P messengers. I think they have MacOS support but not sure.
SimpleX Chat, although not P2P, uses servers as relays and they get virtually not data from you. You can even switch relays daily or host your own. Depending on your use case, it could be useful since IMO it works better than P2P messengers (due to the limitations of P2P)
I was gonna say SimpleX too, its kind of popular in Russia tho, I saw someone made this comparison chat, so I guess WireMin is a private messenger too.
Apparently, they are a decentralized social media that supports E2EE messenging service. https://wiremin.org/
I didn’t know this one, and after looking through their website, I can’t trust them at all.
Dev’s email is gmail. First red flag. And their social media profile are Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Not to mention that all I can read about their “protocol” is shitty marketing speak. There’s no technical whitepaper. And there’s no code. It seems to be proprietary software which is enough reason to run away from it. Together with the rest of things, it looks like either it’s a honeypot or (more probably) a fake privacy initiative trying to grab some money/data from non technical users.
I’m hoping Veilid becomes the new standard platform for a variety of privacy respecting apps. Cult of the Dead Cow just released it at Defcon in August. It looks promising.
Briar.
Tox doesn’t collect any data at all, as far as I know. It’s purely P2P.
