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.
That’s not entirely true. “Source available” could still be read, audited, etc. but does not allow redistribution and/or modification (or restrictions to those such as can only be compiled for personal use or for nonprofits/collectives). Such a project couldn’t be labeled “open source” under the strict definition, but should still meet the important criteria for verifying any claims made about its source.
It says on their website that Zangi isn't open source..
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"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.
I mean it's not FOSS so I won't use it, but if Aurora doesn't work you can just install it from apk
Yes, but you can't download the APK file at all. You have go through Google Play Store to install the app. All download links on zangi.com leads to Play Store (for us Android users that is). Or have I missed something? :)
