While looking for an app I stumbled upon this one. I followed much of the “messenger wars”, but I never heard of this one before. I know it’s Chinese but on paper it is pretty good:
- E2EE
- no phone number signup
- FOSS
- serverless
I tried it and it works well. Seems to have all the things people like but I never heard it mentioned before, any thoughts?
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As long as the app is not open source, they can claim anything without being true.
It’s not? I was under the impression it was
From where?
Looks pretty terrible honestly. Besides what others have said, just visiting their site jshelter says they are fingerprinting you, uBlock Origin blocks a bunch of stuff like google fonts, Facebook, fastly, and a bunch more.
Then there is this ‘Zangi is based on new 5G-standard internet transport technologies, which provide revolutionary results in real-time communication.’ Which is asinine on a bunch of levels.
Just use SimpleX, it works great.
It says on their website that Zangi isn’t open source…
I see. I completely missed that somehow
“No Registration No Data Collection”
Requires Google Play Store which contains a lot of tracking (thanks Google) and “requires” you to have an account at Google. And with “require” I mean you can get pass Google’s shit with Aurora Store, but that shit doesn’t always work properly because Google is trying to block it or something.
I mean it’s not FOSS so I won’t use it, but if Aurora doesn’t work you can just install it from apk
Yes, but you can’t download the APK file at all. You have go through Google Play Store to install the app. All download links on zangi.com leads to Play Store (for us Android users that is). Or have I missed something? :)
I did find the apk somewhere, but I don’t care to do that again
