You are generalizing too much here. I know many who have tried out a product only after seeing its ad. Ads can give plenty of returns to brands. But targeted ads which even exploits our most intimate conversations are really bad news for our right to privacy.

Just installed it. Looks good. Only missing the edit feature that Simple Gallery has.

This is terrible news! I am going to struggle to find a replacement for the gallery app.

Many people forgot, many others now think that he is the villain of the story just because he did what he had to do to save his life, a whole lot don’t care because ‘they have nothing to hide’. For what it’s worth, people who actually care about their privacy is a very small minority in pretty much all countries.

Always have liked their videos. You got a new subscriber!

If you were using Signal just for SMS, none of your messages were secure anyway since the SMS protocol itself is not–defeating the purpose of signal. And if you had already convinced people to install Signal by using SMS as a caveat, you can just continue contacting them through the app.

I was able to convince pretty much everyone who matter in my life to install Signal and they all love it because WhatsApp has become too cluttered and spammy.

I use OpenBoard and is very happy with it.

I am excited for this!

I primarily user Startpage and DuckDuckGo. With all the controversies surrounding it and its founder, I can’t bring myself to trusting Brave.

OP was asking about Brave’s search engine here, not the browser.

Brendan Eich was also spewing misinformation on Covid-19 during the pandemic https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-eich-covid-19.html

Same here.

Signal is already making some progress on building protections against the use of quantum computers to break its encryption https://signal.org/blog/pqxdh/

Same! There is a lot of misinformed Signal bashing going on. I can’t figure out why.

That was also a hack on Twilio. Signal itself wasn’t compromised in any way if I am not wrong.

Signal fiasco?

What does itoddlers mean?

As others have pointed out here, Signal is a very good choice.

This looks really good! Thanks for suggesting this.

Discord is not FOSS and is a privacy nightmare.