<![CDATA[End-to-End Encryption is good but metadata protection counts as much.]]>End-to-End Encryption is good but metadata protection counts as much. Names, group descriptions and memberships, avatars, who talks to whom ...

Both and go to great length to protect all the metadata that WhatsApp grants itself gratuitously. stores similar scales of metadata on their servers, even if you can choose which server stores it.

Everything is better than which additionally stores message contents in all group chats/channels and most 1:1 chats.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/28b4d38a-2418-46a7-85bb-98cea8c50ef3/end-to-end-encryption-is-good-but-metadata-protection-counts-as-much.RSS for NodeMon, 13 Apr 2026 22:08:21 GMTTue, 24 Mar 2026 10:55:40 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to End-to-End Encryption is good but metadata protection counts as much. on Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:11:43 GMT]]>@pelle Thank you for this, so you mean I can’t install my own server and use it ? Didn’t found any doc on installing a server on their repo, but didn’t search a lot…

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://veganism.social/users/faket/statuses/116283847723464035https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://veganism.social/users/faket/statuses/116283847723464035Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:11:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to End-to-End Encryption is good but metadata protection counts as much. on Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:10:39 GMT]]>@delta Thank you for your input 😄

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://veganism.social/users/faket/statuses/116283843513189428https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://veganism.social/users/faket/statuses/116283843513189428Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:10:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to End-to-End Encryption is good but metadata protection counts as much. on Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:10:36 GMT]]>@faket
lead dev is climate-denying nazi transphobe. not exaggerating. check his X.

simplex being "decentralized" means having a hardcoded list of two different server operators to choose from.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://veganism.social/users/pelle/statuses/116283843330017783https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://veganism.social/users/pelle/statuses/116283843330017783Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:10:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to End-to-End Encryption is good but metadata protection counts as much. on Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:09:16 GMT]]>@faket we are lightly following its developments but are not impressed by its UI/UX, and also don't think they particularly care for resilience (they are blocked since >15 months in russia, and don't do much about it, for example), also they don't appear to care much for people with small data plans and bad networks, and rather tune everything for resource-rich always-connected users. They also appear to be going down the crypto-coin rabbithole quite a bit. YMMV.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/delta/statuses/116283838088678345https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/delta/statuses/116283838088678345Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:09:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to End-to-End Encryption is good but metadata protection counts as much. on Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:02:52 GMT]]>@hywan most of the info about whatsapp is found in https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/privacy-policy-eea?lang=en

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/delta/statuses/116283812891328936https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/delta/statuses/116283812891328936Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:02:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to End-to-End Encryption is good but metadata protection counts as much. on Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:01:06 GMT]]>@delta How do you get these information about WhatsApp? Is in the app itself?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://floss.social/users/hywan/statuses/116283805968248648https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://floss.social/users/hywan/statuses/116283805968248648Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:01:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to End-to-End Encryption is good but metadata protection counts as much. on Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:58:11 GMT]]>@delta Do you have a position on SimpleX?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://veganism.social/users/faket/statuses/116283794509674204https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://veganism.social/users/faket/statuses/116283794509674204Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:58:11 GMT