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title: "Signal desktop: fail"
date: 2016-02-15T11:30:00+06:00
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*If you care about privacy, Signal is certainly not an option. -- Nikos Roussos*

Instead, use [Conversations](https://conversations.im/) on Android with [OMEMO](https://conversations.im/omemo/) encryption.

> Whisper Systems failed big once again. They just [announced](https://signal.org/blog/signal-desktop/) 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](https://roussos.cc/2015/12/05/signal-privacy/), 2015.12.05 