Don’t know if anything stops them going from non-profit to profit as OpenAI

Don’t know about other countries but that’s illegal in the US and not what happened.

Much like Mozilla and RPi, they have a for-profit and a non-profit arm.

You can interpret it however you like but that’s not what it says.

removed perfect forward secrecy because they found it hard to implement.

That’s just a blatant lie. There’s an entire blog post about it. You don’t have to lie about it just because you’re not smart enough to understand it.

https://getsession.org/blog/session-protocol-technical-information

It’s very high end.

RCS with Google’s proprietary extensions

I don’t know that that’s true. But regardless, I agree and wish they decided on a more open protocol, but that is just not the corporate way. Anything is better than SMS/MMS.

There’s no shortage of options for doing that.

Sure. Ask yourself why Apple users don’t use them? The answer is SMS fallback. A feature which you can use with any app on Android and literally only with iMessage on iOS.

It’s probably even true that someone would have exploited the technique Beeper Mini was using to send spam if Apple hadn’t closed it.

Well Apple doesn’t seem to give a single fuck about SMS spam, so I’m not sure what your point is. Google at least incorporates spam filtering.

About “Proprietary App Store”: the store itself and many apps on there are proprietary

Doesn’t matter. The point is that devs have to jump through completely arbitrary hoops and pay Apple money just to make their apps available to Apple users. And any money they take they have to give 30% of the income to Apple for the privilege of running it on their hardware.

About “Gaslighting their customers”: I’d like to see hard proof on that.

There isn’t any. But all you have to do is look at their actions.

I’m not saying iPhones don’t have their advantages but you don’t understand what the actual problem is. And it comes off as intentional.

iMessage is an app. Android is an operating system. I think what you meant to say is iMessage doesn’t support RCS.

The difference is Apple worked hard to keep it this way for decades, even so far as “patch” a fix that was created to make it possible for their customers to communicate securely with Android users.

And Apple is only going to support RCS because they were forced to, and they’ll on comply to the degree that they think they can get away with. Just like they’re doing with app stores.

You shouldn’t need to activate anything.

Yes I’m fully aware of the comment that I wrote some hours ago. Read it again. More carefully this time.

It is most certainly not for just for older phones

No one said it was.

LOL boy if I’ve ever seen propaganda and sensationalism that’s it right there

dislike this OS due to perceived misleading advertising

It’s a non-profit, there is no advertising.

and the pixel 7a you’re supposed to install graphene on because it’s from google (an advertising company).

Yeah I dunno what that’s supposed to mean. You can’t install it on an iPhone or most other Android devices because they all have locked bootloader’s (among other reasons). They only develop for Pixel because it streamlines the development process, along with having the highest level of security in the SoC.

Another option would be lineage OS

Lineage is a great project, and fairly private, but as the name implies, it’s intended for older phones to increase their life. Not necessarily to be private.

what works for you?

Graphene

Ah yes, trolls = people you disagree with.

Sorry, do I know you?

I mean, you probably don’t. But any particular instance CAN be collecting IPs and selling them. Or their security could be compromised.

This is without me knowing a ton about this specific piece of software.

Aside from that, I don’t toggle my VPN on and off on a per-site basis.

I don’t want to explain anything, and they don’t deserve one.

Hasn’t been updated in over a year

LMAO they absolutely don’t, you dolt.

Yes, you give Big Tech tracking information… that they already have.

Don’t know about you but Google sure as shit is not tracking my location.

I mean those are just the Bazzite-specific commands.