Then i strongly recommend you check out F-droid: it is the only place i know of where you can find trustworthy applications (they’re all free software and vetted by the community, and antifeatures are flagged explicitly) and their blog and overall community are a treasure trove of information.
If you’re confident noone is going after your hardware, Telegram is not the worst. But Jabber/XMPP or Matrix would be considered more robust and privacy-friendly, because they don’t rely on a centralized actor, and don’t force you to provide a phone number. They both support end-to-end encryption.
EDIT: If you have other questions, you can ask them directly. I’m afraid there’s no definitive guide of privacy :)
Thanks. By ‘ask directly’ I’m assuming you mean here and not by DM - if not, my apologies. Yes, I started using F-droid some time ago. I had hoped to root my handset , but it seems tricky to do the one I have. I think I heard somewhere that there’s an app (possibly several) that tests your phone for info leakage.
No. Just need to know how truly secure certain apps are like Telegram etc.
Then i strongly recommend you check out F-droid: it is the only place i know of where you can find trustworthy applications (they’re all free software and vetted by the community, and antifeatures are flagged explicitly) and their blog and overall community are a treasure trove of information.
If you’re confident noone is going after your hardware, Telegram is not the worst. But Jabber/XMPP or Matrix would be considered more robust and privacy-friendly, because they don’t rely on a centralized actor, and don’t force you to provide a phone number. They both support end-to-end encryption.
EDIT: If you have other questions, you can ask them directly. I’m afraid there’s no definitive guide of privacy :)
Thanks. By ‘ask directly’ I’m assuming you mean here and not by DM - if not, my apologies. Yes, I started using F-droid some time ago. I had hoped to root my handset , but it seems tricky to do the one I have. I think I heard somewhere that there’s an app (possibly several) that tests your phone for info leakage.
There’s also https://privacyguides.org
Excellent. Thank you!