While looking for an app I stumbled upon this one. I followed much of the “messenger wars”, but I never heard of this one before. I know it’s Chinese but on paper it is pretty good:
- E2EE
- no phone number signup
- FOSS
- serverless
I tried it and it works well. Seems to have all the things people like but I never heard it mentioned before, any thoughts?
As long as the app is not open source, they can claim anything without being true.
It’s not? I was under the impression it was
From where?
It says on their website that Zangi isn’t open source…
I see. I completely missed that somehow
Looks pretty terrible honestly. Besides what others have said, just visiting their site jshelter says they are fingerprinting you, uBlock Origin blocks a bunch of stuff like google fonts, Facebook, fastly, and a bunch more.
Then there is this ‘Zangi is based on new 5G-standard internet transport technologies, which provide revolutionary results in real-time communication.’ Which is asinine on a bunch of levels.
Just use SimpleX, it works great.
“No Registration No Data Collection”
Requires Google Play Store which contains a lot of tracking (thanks Google) and “requires” you to have an account at Google. And with “require” I mean you can get pass Google’s shit with Aurora Store, but that shit doesn’t always work properly because Google is trying to block it or something.