Samsung is shutting down messages and pushing the use of Google’s messenger. Are there alternatives? I don’t want to give Google that much personal info to train its AI or to give the regime an avenue to getting my info.
Samsung is shutting down messages and pushing the use of Google’s messenger. Are there alternatives? I don’t want to give Google that much personal info to train its AI or to give the regime an avenue to getting my info.
For an SMS replacement, I’ve been using Fossify Messages for a while now and don’t have any complaints with it. It’s open source and doesn’t care about your personal info. I don’t really use SMS much, so idk if it has all the features you used in the Samsung messenger, but it might be worth trying out.
EDIT: If you need RCS, I don’t think there are any open source choices for it, due to how its deployed afaik. You’re pretty much stuck with Samsung or Google or some other OEM’s SMS app.
looks like this automatically imports blocked numbers. very good, thank you 👍
also since somebody reminded me of image compression, I’m also getting full images with this