You will surely know Discord as a chat platform for games because that’s where it began, but over time it has become something more and its managers promote it as an alternative to WhatsApp, Teams and even the more professional Slack depending on the needs of the user.
Threema recently completed a transition to open source software, and the code is regularly audited so the user can be sure there is nothing under the hood that could compromise anonymity.
Is it availabe für Android ( if you want with an APK without going through the Google Play Store), iOS and web browsers. The service generates a random ID when you start using the app that other users can use to communicate with you. It is currently the big name in instant messaging, although it is far from the number of WhatsApp or Telegram users.Īn application created in Switzerland and with the use of exclusive servers hosted there, which allows you to chat completely anonymously since it is not even necessary to link a phone number or email to your account ( they are optional).
Since the announcement of the WhatsApp policy change regarding the transfer of data to Facebook, Signal downloads have skyrocketed by 4,200%.
It is freely available for Android and Apple mobile devices, as well as Windows, Mac and Linux PCs. Promoted by Edward Snowden, Jack Dorsey or the technologist Bruce Schneier, another of its advantages is that the project is the responsibility of an independent non-profit organization, which does not depend on any big technology company and is supported by voluntary donations. In der Tat, WhatsApp’s internal encryption system is built on Signal’s code. Signal is also a open source development, which means your code is available online for public scrutiny and any privacy issues or security flaws can be verified by experts. Als Ergebnis, no one, including Signal staff, can see any of this data without physical access to your device. Any other data, such as the contact list, the groups you belong to or any other type of content is encrypted and stored on the device.
More important still is the minimum information the service collects, just the phone number, the date you joined the service, and the date you last logged in. Zuckeberg’s firm has been allowed an impressive concentration of services since to the more than 2,000 million users of WhatsApp, it adds those that it already had in its own Messenger and that can add another 1,300 Million. The problem comes from its owner, Facebook ( today Meta). It is probably the most transversal service in terms of age groups and is usually the gateway to less digitized population groups due to what was mentioned in the previous paragraph. It must be recognized that WhatsApp works and has been improving with successive developments.
Absolutely essential on mobile devices and convenient on the desktop, it is the most widely used software along with web browsers. Whatsapp has managed to occupy “the whole for the part” and it is common that, except in specialized media, the “guasap” is used to define a category of instant messaging applications that today is used for its own communication tasks such as text chat, but also in others such as voice calls, videoconferencing and sending of media content. And it is that the general public is comfortable by nature and it is difficult for them to try something else that they have been using for years. Taking into account that these types of applications need users and the content they manage, switching hundreds of millions of users from one platform to another is either very difficult or time consuming.
But there is a big problem to use them as an alternative. There are messaging applications that are the same, better or more specialized than the best known and used, Whatsapp.