Ask HN: Anyone swtiched from whatsapp to wire?

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after whatsapp changed their term of service to allow facebook using whatsapp for advertisement, I decided to keep my old whatsapp and not update.

today whatsapp showed a message saying I cannot use whatsapp unless I update, because my app is obsolete.

Any body switched to wire any difference with whatsapp?

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2 days ago - Wire's independent security review https://medium.com/wire-news/wires-independent-security-revi...

WIRE is just superb and it performs well also in BAD, i.e. low bandwidth network conditions. I had several WIRE high-quality calls even in 2G! Wire privacy is just PERFECT!

For any communication where "big brother" monitoring activities are of no importance WhatsApp is fine.

WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted with Signal Protocol. "Big Brother" is not monitoring your WhatsApp encrypted chats.

…hard to verify without seeing the source

Not really.

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