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If you care about privacy, Signal is certainly not an option. -- Nikos Roussos

Instead, use Conversations on Android with OMEMO encryption.

Whisper Systems failed big once again. They just announced their "Desktop" version of Signal, which is actually a Chrome app.

So just to get facts straight, this is neither a Desktop nor a Web app. And just like their Android app, you need a Google account to download it.

Actually this is even worse, because you also need to use Chrome to use this app. Channeling all your (meta)data through a closed source browser, built & distributed by the biggest tracking ad company.

-- Nikos Roussos, 2015.12.05