- Nothing personal is send back to servers.
- This dialogue is already over 1 year there. They simply unlocked it for more languages and made the dialogue opt-in. Previously it was disabled and you had to go manually to the settings to enable it.
- Signal is no honeypot, this is absolutely FUD.
- Element is no honeypot, anonymized statistics cannot be used to identify you. The firebase part was removed.
- The analytics are to track how many people use Element and some other useless things, not to deanonymize you.
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2022
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