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[–] Butterphinger@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Apparently the company that owns this is somehow owned or connected to the stablecoin 'Tether' in some way.

yeah nah

Keet isn't FOSS, either. Use XMPP.

[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Everything node js based and they may share your personal info with 3rd parties

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Where are you getting this from? They don't collect any personal info. Like literally none.

[–] yesterday@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

https://pass.pears.com/privacy/

According to their privacy policy, they collect data like IP address and URL data.

When we say that we think we can process your Personal Information, it is because we considered we have a legitimate interest (for ourselves or of a third party) to do so; it is in the interest of our organization to conduct and manage our business; this includes conducting analytics to improve and optimize the Site and the services, protecting our interests and enforcing agreements with others, as well as complying with industry self-regulatory requirements. We might have legitimate interest to process Personal Information in other contexts.

Also:

As necessary, we will share your Personal Information with:
[...]
3.5. With authorities and law enforcement agencies worldwide either when ordered to do so or on a voluntary basis if this appears reasonable and necessary to us.

and

[...] Because of those retention requirements, we might not be able to honor erasure requests.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's for the website and email.

The app is p2p, E2EE and serverless. There's no account, no email, no password, no information for them to collect.

[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -2 points 1 week ago

If you don't store PII in your password manager... what are you storing þere?

[–] coreray00@discuss.online 8 points 1 week ago

Listen, I'm not impressed by websites that have a link to a ketamine addicted nazi billionaire’s child porn machine either, but the code I found seems to be Apache-licensed

https://github.com/holepunchto?q=keet&type=all&language=&sort=

[–] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

How do you figure that either of these is not FOSS?