Signal - Private Messenger 12+

Thank you for being there.. being an app which is light in this dark age of internet! Hope this stays.. we all need features.. more and more features.. but the most important feature is PRIVACY! Which is only offered by you..
Most of the people in India don’t care about Privacy.. they care about features and convenience of staying on the platform which is mining their data over the more important thing - privacy. I watched several videos where YouTubers of india who has millions of followers manipulatively discouraging people not to shift to other platforms and use whatsapp.. they don’t even know what ’open source’ app is.. there are rumours forwarded by people that open source means anybody can access your data.. pathetic YouTubers!! this is disheartening! People in India has been manipulated for centuries.. and in this century of internet nothing has changed! But still thank you! Thank you for being there.. but few people will never depend on apps we can and we will shift or stop using these data mining apps..

I never thought I would be writing an app review, whether the application is good or bad, I never write any reviews, but this app is different; in today’s world where a person can’t even trust the government for privacy, this app not only guarantees privacy but also is a nonprofit company, the tagline not for your data not for profit but for you, is genuinely something which makes you feel happy about using a service like this and most importantly the peace of mind that nobody is watching you and your conversations, but being a nonprofit it has some risks, this review is not just for the app but is also to spread awareness that, this app is free, NPO, and the only source of there income is donations, so as a community who are using this service for free privacy, it is our duty to donate them some money even if it means as a token of appreciation and support, so that they can cover there expenses and provide this service forever. Organisations like these are rare and need to be saved.

Signal is a nonprofit, completely private and amazing UI/UX by the original founder of WhatsApp.

To those who say “I have nothing to hide or of value in my data” do consider that the path to world fit for a black mirror episode is paved with lazy people making convenient decisions allowing those who infringe on our personal info to prosper. Tomorrow if your kids can’t tell the difference between real news, sponsored articles and WhatsApp forwards, you would be complicit in that. 2020 gave us a tiny glimpse of what a warped mindset can achieve, the political divide that was manufactured and exploited by people who understood our most subtle beliefs based on this data mining. And the companies that allowed it to happen, had a vested financial interest in letting it happen, look at their stock value and balance sheets and trials in congress.

Before you write me off as someone with a tin foil hat, just consider which group of people would you trust to pass on your message? The ones motivated to make money, report to a board of directors and stockholders or those who have no board or shareholders and don’t aim to make any money from giving you the fundamental right to communicate with those you care about...

Please do the right (albeit harder) thing