I’ve been inspecting this topic quite a lot and I’m a little confused now. So, we have reasons not to use Signal, reasons not to use Matrix, there were also some claims about Session being a fraught. Briar is mostly activists related (not very suitable for daily use), XMPP lacks good clients and suffers from fragmentation of protocol standards implementation, SimpleX is too feature-incomplete (no UnifiedPush support, big battery drain on Android, very decent desktop client without any message sync). I can’t say a lot about Threema or Wire, as I’m not very familiar with them.
So, my question is — is there any good private messenger at all? What do you think is the most acceptable option?
EDIT: In addition to my post:
All messengers have their flaws, I’m well aware of that. I was interested in hearing users’ opinions regarding these shortcomings, not in finding the perfect messenger. I may have worded my thoughts incorrectly, sorry for that.
There’s no such thing as private on the internet. Sometime after the nineties everyone forgot that.
Cynicism is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Do you need links to police cracking people crypto wallets. That’s about as secure as you’re going to get now and it’s still not enough. So what else have you got.
You’re confusing privacy with anonymity.
No I’m not. Google up police cracking criminal crypto wallets. These kinds of responses are exactly why this question got asked.
There is no such thing as a binary choice between “absolutely private” and “absolutely non-private”.
You’re either connected or disconnected. There is no in between. All you can do is toggle between them and hope no one is paying attention.
This is not binary like this either. There are a TON of variables.
All depends on whom you want to be private against, as well as how much effort they want to put into getting your information. There is no “absolute privacy”… But there is “requiring more effort from the chosen adversary than you’re worth”.