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I have not found any news article on this on a whim. Because my friends and family, I need to use Facebook Messenger, and Messenger Lite was a OK client - lightweight, no unnecessary features, etc., compared to the regular Messenger app.
Now I'm a little torn, having a Meta app on my phone is already bad, but having to downgrade to the bloated Messenger app? Not sure I will make a change. What are your thoughts?
Texting still exists.
Being spied on by facebook, microsoft, and google is not worth the risk to me personally.
Again, who tf uses messenger?
The entire nation of Poland
Not me
Wait you're not an entire nation are you?
I just like to be proud of improving digital space around me
You'd rather be spied on by your carrier.... Got it.
Better them than companies who advertise to me directly
I don't use either one, for very obvious reasons
Fair enough.
Personally, I don't like using 30 year old technology to communicate. I avoid phone calls and I generally avoid SMS and it's derivatives.
I work in IT and generally demand more from my messaging apps. I still avoid FB like the plague though.
Carrier can’t spy on you if iMessage and signal!
Which are both not SMS/texting. I know iMessage falls back to SMS if the number doesn't have iMessage, which is where the carrier spying comes in.
Instead for iMessage, it's Apple spying, and for signal it's...... Shrug
I trust iMesssge’s e2e and Apple’s privacy a fuckovalot more than anything Facebook has ever made.
That's fine. I trust Google's chat app more than SMS, and others, it's all personal preference. The point of my comment was to demonstrate that no matter what you're using, someone has your data and is likely selling it.
If you trust apple enough to use their service, all the power to you. If you trust signal/telegram/element/whatever, that's cool too. But no matter what service you're using, if it's a free public service, your data is the product. It is, in all likelihood, being sold to someone somewhere.
It's a personal choice for how much risk you're willing to accept on that front. Bluntly, I don't think anyone should trust FB or any of suckerberg's properties. Everyone else is varying levels of shit. Some much worse than others.... The decisions made beyond that point are personal.
And frankly, if someone almost exclusively uses FB messenger, it says to me that they don't give any shits about their data or what happens to it. Everything else, meh. There's good and bad from most companies, some are doing better (signal, as an example, seems to be doing pretty good), others, not so great.... Meh.
In our country, texting (through the built-in Messenger app) is mostly done as an emergency measure, as most people here use Meta's other messaging app, WhatsApp.