cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/15388100

Nothing Chats has already been pulled from Google Play over privacy issues / Nothing pulled the Nothing Chats beta from the Google Play store “until further notice” after reports that Sunbird sends messages in plain text.

    • @[email protected]
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      161 year ago

      I knew it wasn’t going far when I heard the service was being run by having a farm of mac servers acting as the bridge and that you needed to give over your apple credentials to use it.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        Why even do this in the first place, when Matrix Bridges have been a thing for ages now?

        (Note: I don’t like Matrix Bridges either, they’re problematic in their own right)

        • @MarsRT
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          31 year ago

          pretty sure sunbird claimed they were able to get thousands of apple IDs to be able to work on one mac, which is something matrix bridge based iMessage solutions like Beeper don’t do

          whether they’re actually being truthful about that, i would personally doubt it

          • @[email protected]
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            1 year ago

            which is something matrix bridge based iMessage solutions like Beeper don’t do

            Which is precisely what makes Matrix the better option for this, albeit still not great

            • @MarsRT
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              41 year ago

              for a mass market solution though, that’s not scalable at all, even if you try to get the cheapest, used macs possible so I can see why sunbird would claim to do this

  • @gaael
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    131 year ago

    When your privacy performance is not even good enough for Google, it’s time to ask yourself some questions.

    • @stealthnerd
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      41 year ago

      They pulled it. Google didn’t.

      • @gaael
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        01 year ago

        And I commented without reading the article, my bad. Thanks for the correction :)