derekmorr

Spitbath said:

I agree with this sentiment. I have been trying to have less Google in my life by avoiding their products... That includes no longer using Chrome, Gmail, Google Maps, and most importantly, avoiding friendly relationships with Android users if I can. YouTube is the only Google product I cannot live without.

You seriously won't be friends with someone because of what type of phone they use? That's just pathetic.

I'm honestly wondering why anyone would use iMessage at all. From a privacy perspective, it's a terrible product.

• The iCloud backups are accessible by Apple. Deal breaker.
• The iMessage protocol is terribly designed. It's so bad that in 2016, researchers at Johns Hopkins were able to read encrypted messages. That should never be possible.
  
• Related to the above: iMessage doesn't have forward secrecy. That's just stunning.
• It's not open source, so it can't be independently audited.
• Apple routinely gives information to government agencies.

I've been using Signal for a while. While it's not perfect, it's far better on a privacy front than iMessage. And it doesn't encourage people to ostracize users based on what phone they have -- that's just incredibly childish behavior.

lordjohnwhorfin said:

I hate to have to use that POS Firefox, but at least adblock works on it.

Why is firefox a pos?