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Re:Ask HN: Paid alternatives to WhatsApp by tue4Iezi on Thursday August 25, 2016 @11:54AM (#12360035)
Re:Ask HN: Paid alternatives to WhatsApp by dnh44 on Thursday August 25, 2016 @04:09PM (#12362081)
I got threema at launch for iOS. Still haven't managed to find anyone else using it unfortunately.
Re:Ask HN: Paid alternatives to WhatsApp by reacharavindh on Friday August 26, 2016 @04:34PM (#12369127)
Same here. Threema sounds best on paper. I'm definitely going to try to use atleast within my family. But, I don't hope to have a thriving network around it any time soon.

Too bad the masses don't get the privacy angle in free products. I feel like FB<->WhatsApp is counting on just that by using a unintuitive "opt-out" policy. The moms,dads, and not so tech aware citizens won't even know what goes on underneath. They would be feeling falsely proud to use a 'secure','E-E encrypted' service not knowing 'privacy' is different from them.