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Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple
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this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2023
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I use SMS mostly. From time to time Google asks if I want to activate RCS and presents a policy along with it, which I decline. Does it pass through their servers? If it does, that's gonna be a big no.
I'm not quite sure why you're against a message going through a particular company's servers. If it's privacy then as far as I know SMS & MMS are like sending postcards in that everyone can see them.
Yeah I don't think you're right in that. I don't think SMS or MMS are encrypted in anyway. I imagine you have an Android phone and unless you're running a custom OS like Graphene don't you think your data is already accessible?
People want to distrust Google even when it defies all logic
You're using a Google OS for your phone and you think not encrypting your texts makes it harder for Google to train their AI on them?
Interesting take. Do you have data to support it?
FYI RCS with the e2e encryption extension enabled is harder to snoop on even for Google than it is to snoop on infamously insecure SMS