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Wire. Handy comparison chart here.

It's not immediately apparent from their site that wire is open source and free to use, but it is.

I use Wire and so do at least three people I know. Join us!

Everyone I know has moved to wire.app. Encrypted text, voice & video. Not tied to a phone number. Works on win, mac, linux, android, ios. Free. Open source.

Dos it have a Pidgin plug-in?

Everyone I know has moved to wire.app. Encrypted text, voice & video. Not tied to a phone number. Works on win, mac, linux, android, ios. Free. Open source.

You should definitely be using Wire.

https://tox.chat/
Seem like a good option.

https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/...
Likely safe from "we know better than you" trash-people.

https://wire.com/en/
Maybe?

https://about.riot.im/
Maybe?

http://www.teamspeak.com/en/te...
Guess running your own server removes the issues.

https://ring.cx/
Seem like it could work.

https://www.evolvehq.com/welco...
That's the stuff which came with AMD drivers before? Likely not safe for your freedoms.

https://app.twitch.tv/
Curse was direct competitor to Discord before. But Twitch .. Anything owned by a company like that I guess want to act like the anti-white globalists and their followers in idiocy want so .. likely not a good option? Unless one already use it and they haven't fucked around yet.

Wire.

https://wire.com/en/privacy/

Open source, open protocol, end-to-end crypto.
Based in Berlin thus not subject to US laws.

anyone heard of “wire” an app by the skype inventor appwhich encrypts conversations https://wire.com/en/

Yep. They ought to rename it to Spype.

Wire is available for linux, supports group chat, and can't be eavesdropped on by Microsoft and their NSA buddies.

Any links as to what Chrome collects?

No, because there is no law which requires a company to publish an honest privacy policy. And even if there was, there is no way in hell Google will ever allow any regulatory body to pry around their data centres and entire database and archives to ensure that they are indeed not spying or doing nasty things with data, like selling to insurance companies, government bodies, highest bidder, etc.

And even if there was such a thing as a regulatory body to monitor Google, Google will simply pay them enough to shut up, like they bribe the US Government and the EU.

The only honest privacy policy (as it appears to me) comes from the likes of EFF, DuckDuckGo, Mozilla, ProtonMail, and Wire, of the few that I've read.

Google on the other hand is very deceptive and vague in their privacy policy, especially data retention... if there is such a thing as privacy and Google!

Since I don't use Facebook, my number should be irrelevant to them to serve me advertisement in their platform. Furthermore, I use the anti-social plugins for browsing so they don't get my browsing history either.

If this really bothers you, Signal is a perfectly good alternative to WhatsApp, which is completely open source and with almost identical functionality. Another surprisingly good and also open source alternative is Wire, which doesn't rely on phone numbers, and it's completely multiplatform.

If you can't vote with your dollars, vote with your feet.

Wire has complete e2e--encryption and a full set of features missing in the other apps. (As well as all encryption bits being open source).

Simple comparison chart is here: https://wire.com/privacy/

https://wire.com/legal/#what-information-do-we-collect

2.3 Shared information you post in chats. Using the Service to communicate by chat, our servers store the content of your chat conversation and log other information such as the time and date of your conversations, and the other user or users with whom you are communicating.

So yeah, it's there. They also tried to access my phone's camera via Firefox when I visited their site. Rather strange and not comforting at all.