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[–] 89 points 7 months ago (10 children)

One is owned by a US tech corp whose primary income stream is building advertising profiles on users and selling advertising space to businesses while handing data off to authoritarian governments without warrants.

The other is a US non profit where the FBI admitted the only data they can get from them is when the user registered and when they were last online.

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  • [–] 30 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    and recently they figured out how to use the OS's notification database to collect some cache and read the notifications Signal sends

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    On one OS. You can tune Signal not to display the notification contents. Moreover, if you're on iOS and actually expect privacy, you should probably reflect on your choices a little more.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Realistically iOS is more private than base android at this point

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    ... Because the person had message previews in notifs turned on

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (1 child)

    But only thanks to Apples ability to see and obtain every notification that lands on your phone.

    I'll add this; A stock apple phone can not be made privacy centric.

    A base android phone may not be as privacy respecting as apple, but can be made far more privacy respecting then the apple phone could ever possibly be

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