“Facebook is probably more comfortable selling ads than buying them, but they’ll do what they have to do in order to be the top result when some people search for ‘Signal’ in the App Store.There will never be ads in Signal, because your data belongs in your hands not ours,' Signal said. The world’s largest instant messaging app updated its terms of service on 6 January, informing users that information from interactions with businesses will be shared with Facebook and companies it owns, and the businesses themselves.īoth Telegram and Signal took the opportunity to promote their platforms and criticize Facebook for profiling users for ad targeting.

It is up to us to become victim or reject such moves,' Sharma said. Signal the most secure messaging app for individual users, robust end-to-end encryption by default, open-source code. Here in India WhatsApp / Facebook are abusing their monopoly & taking away millions of users’ privacy for granted. The figures came to light as Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma criticized WhatsApp on Twitter on Monday. Signal’s encryption, in particular, is powered by the app’s own open source Signal Protocol and adds an additional layer of security to almost every communication you hold over the app. Lifetime downloads (since 2014) in India stood at 3.9 million for Signal and 151.5 million for Telegram, while WhatsApp has a whopping 1.4 billion downloads from India in the same period. WhatsApp’s downloads fell 35% in the same period, from 2 million to 1.3 million. Telegram’s was a more steady 15% growth from 1.3 million downloads. Signal was downloaded only 24,000 times between 1 and 5 January, which makes the growth over the subsequent five days a jaw-dropping 9,483%.

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