I’m currently using Sync even though it’s closed source because it was still a really well-made app, but it seems to be abandonware now. Jerboa is great and it’s actively developed, but IMO it’s also the ugliest one.
Can you recommend any of the other FOSS ones, especially one that handles our glorious emotes well?
Theres lots of speculation that apps like facebook listen in on the mic even without permission. I dunno how true that is, but a browser app absolutely cannot do that.
Yeah I’ve heard that, but I don’t really buy it. It would be a massive vulnerability that Google would have every interest in patching. They’re good at security when they want to be, and they definitely don’t want to give their direct competitor any data for free. The more likely option is that people simply give Facebook permission to use the mic, for stuff like voice messages, and Facebook abuses it. Plus we’re talking about open source hobbyist projects, not one of the biggest corpos in the world.