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Friends and family won't switch to private messaging apps or phones. Is there a point in avoiding Google Messages app?

They all have iPhones and Google Android. Since all my calls and text messages are monitored on their phones, am I causing any additional harm to myself by using Google Messages on GrapheneOS? That way I could at least use RCS messaging.

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  • Google RCS, which is effectively just another proprietary internet messaging app despite being based on a standard at least claims to use end-to-end encryption, and is probably more resistant to mass surveillance than SMS. If those are your options, Google RCS is an upgrade.

  • As long as you keep it's permissions locked down, it's better because at least with GMessages you get encryption on some charts whereas SMS is just pure text being sent through your cell provider.

  • delta chat. solves this problem as it uses the email protocol with pgp (when available), so from your end it's a chat client and from their end it's an email from you.

    if they find it too annoying to reply by email they could just install the delta chat "email client", too ;)

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