If you don’t know how big a deal metadata is, you do not understand anything about online data security and privacy.

Sorry, real privacy is silo’d, just like the vast majority of online traffic is, the widely agreed upon base interoperability standards are not private or secure.

SMS is an insecure interoperable standard.

Meta is an insecure silo.

Stop pretending it is an interoperable standard, it isn’t, it’s just a popular, shitty silo.

Signal is a secure silo.

I’m all for upgrading the universal messaging standards to Signal’s, but that’ll never happen, because governments (EDIT: and databroker MegaCorps) don’t actually like real privacy.

If you wanna stay in a mainstream, dream for corporate data brokers and government surveillance silo, go ahead, nobody is stopping you.

If you wanna join the ‘we actually have privacy’ silo, well, it does things differently, and it’s on you to acclimate to those differences instead of destroying them and demanding assimilation and thus destruction of the very privacy that makes it distinct.

Please see my above post, I edited and expanded it with an illustrative comic as you were making your reply.

EDIT 2: Also Proton is cozying up to Trump, publically, guess you missed the memo on that.