They all have iPhones and Google Android. Since all my calls and text messages are monitored on their phones, am I causing any additional harm to myself by using Google Messages on GrapheneOS? That way I could at least use RCS messaging.
Doesn’t Google Messages require access to your contacts to even run? My experience was that it didn’t even ask permission; it just gave itself permission when I first launched it.
It did that to me also. As soon as i tapped Agree, i saw that it had more permissions enabled.
If I was installing it again, I’d try turning off network access before tapping Agree but I’m not sure if this would work.
edit On GrapheneOS you can use scopes and decide which contacts it has access to.
As long as you keep it’s permissions locked down, it’s better because at least with GMessages you get encryption on some charts whereas SMS is just pure text being sent through your cell provider.
You can lead a horse to water, you cannot make it drink.
With my people from we use Signal.
Friends and family stick to text as it too hard to make everyone else change.
Because their friends use text… why change…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Beeper can bridge those into a matrix chat. Then at least you can chat with people who or on a privacy related one as well as the heathens in Facebook messenger
Google RCS, which is effectively just another proprietary internet messaging app despite being based on a standard at least claims to use end-to-end encryption, and is probably more resistant to mass surveillance than SMS. If those are your options, Google RCS is an upgrade.
