Whatsapp-Alternative: Signal, Telegram and Threema in Check (Video)

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Signal, Telegram or Threema are the advantages and disadvantages of the messenger services

You can see in the Video: Why you should switch Signal, Telegram or Threema.

Privacy in times of global data is a precious commodity Kraken. Services like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger to collect data on the user behaviour of its Users. Who does not want their data to be passed on to the business customers of the Facebook group, has only one choice: The products of the company.
And there are Alternatives: the Messenger App Signal. It originates from the Signal-to-Foundation, the WhatsApp founder Brian Acton in 2018, with a capital of US $ 50 million has been founded. The goal: to create A truly private Messaging service. While WhatsApp was integrated after the Acquisition of Facebook in the business principle of the parent group, has the advantage that it is operated by a charitable Foundation and not of a profit-oriented company. An Amendment to the WhatsApp terms, conditions, and served for many users, apparently as food for thought. The User must agree to an extended exchange data with parent company Facebook, or you fly out. Since then, the Server Signal App glow. In the App Stores, you climbed long ago ranked one of the Apps with the most Downloads. Partly responsible for the Hype also, Elon is expected to be Musk. The Tesla-founder and most recently the richest man in the world had sent more than 40 million followers via Twitter the following call: “Use Signal” uses a Signal. Although the Signal is not the only Alternative to WhatsApp, should Musk have probably, indirectly, the foundations for the successor to provided.
Another profiteer of the WhatsApp Exodus of the Russian brothers Pavel and Nikolai Durov developed a free App Telegram is. However, unlike the Signal, the End-to-end encryption, so the secure Transmission of data is not set by default, and for some functions not usable. Interesting: The real competition for the Signal comes, surprisingly, not from the US, but from Switzerland.
The App Threema is pursuing a similar approach to that Signal. The creators even made the source code public, in order to address concerns for the privacy of the user’s concerns.

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Services like Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger to collect data on the user behaviour of its Users. But there are Alternatives: the Messenger Apps, Signal, Telegram and Threema. We introduce you in the Video.

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