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Threema: a paid secure messenger that doesn't require a phone number at registration

Duration: 5min 36sec Type: How-to

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"Paid messengers exist, although it is hard to believe. As an argument ""for"" you can give the following: developers will somehow monetize their product, it's just that in free messengers this happens through advertising, collecting data on user behavior, non-obvious additional paid services, and so on. I will say right away that the argument is debatable.

Well, in Threema, the developers honestly take $5 from you upon registration and then you can rest assured that you are not being used in any other way. For $5 you get end-to-end encryption in chats and groups, Swiss jurisdiction, ultimate anonymity and basically that's it. In terms of functionality, Threema is inferior to its free counterparts."