None of your SMS data is encrypted anyway, all of it can be obtained by your cell provider or the recipients cell provider. TBH Google is probably the least of your problems with regard to SMS safety. I had a friend who sent an invite code to some gambling website to her husband, so she could get promo credit, and AT&T flagged her text as spam and blocker her across their whole network for a week or annoying period of time.

https://xkcd.com/2365/

We need to ban advertising. No ads, no reason to collect data on everyone. Better for everyone.

Everyone should just use Signal. And donate to them! It's easy enough that my grandma can use it somewhat

I get that you’re alluding to the claim that Google Messages is saving your SMS messages… got any proof?

I don’t know the truth here so I’m legit curious

Jokes on them I like to masturbate while people watch