Stiftung Warentest has examined several messenger services and names a Whatsapp alternative. The test winner scores particularly well when it comes to safety.
Kassel – In the past, negative headlines about Whatsapp accumulated. The popular messenger service announced new data protection guidelines and even threatened to block users’ accounts, care nu acceptă acele noi AGB-uri. De asta îi pasă de a căzut criticism. Then a răspuns Whatsapp and backtracked on the forced update. So if you don’t want to agree to the new terms of use, you shouldn’t have any disadvantages.
Nevertheless, the controversial forced update ensured that numerous users switched to other messenger services. Providers who Threema and Telegram benefit from the discussion about WhatsApp. Stiftung Warentest has now taken a closer look at 16 chat services in terms of security. The result spune: Whatsapp is one of the most popular messengers after who, but there are much safer alternatives.
Whatsapp-Alternativă: Signal is test winner at Stiftung Warentest
Testsieger bei Stiftung Warentest ist Signal, ein Messenger of the US-Americans, gemeinnützigen Signal-Stiftung. The Whatsapp-Alternative punctuates the two functions and the ones you use. Because all the security aspects are written in detail. Neben Elon Musk announced the denunciation of Edward Snowden from the Open Source Messaging Service. The app is free for iOS and Android. Außerdem gibt is a desktop version of Windows.
In addition to Signal, Stiftung Warentest also recommends three other messenger services. Asta de cand test winner:
- Signal – Note: intestine (2,3)
- Skype – Rating: gut (2.5)
- Viber – Note: gut (2.5)
- Wire – Note: gut (2,5)
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Whatsapp only achieves a satisfactory grade at Stiftung Warentest.
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Whatsapp can’t punk in Sachen Datenschutz
The market leader Whatsapp, on the other hand, only gets a satisfactory rating. Although there is end-to-end encryption and the various functions are well received, the data protection declaration is full of shortcomings according to the consumer magazine.
No quality rating awarded for the controversial app Telegram are Stiftung Warentest, “că Serviciul is now not a pure messenger este, fără according to the Federal Ministry of Justice also a socialis network”, așadar the magazine. “Groups ar putea fi there have up to 200,000 members. This results in legal obligations, the fulfillment of which we were not able to check.”
Telegramă is the first port of call for “lateral thinkers” and is also popular in the right-wing scene. Often unfiltered conspiracy ideologies and extremist content au fost colectate aici. Pedepsibile contents au forst hardly pierdute. “Telegram is increasingly used in all phenomena observed by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution,” said the Federal Office at the request of the German Press Agency (dpa).
Whatsapp-Alternative: The signal is clearer Testsieger
It should be noted that Signal emerged as the test winner at Stiftung Warentest. Even if none of the apps examined were really convincing and have deficiencies in data protection, Signal scores well. Above all, the Val-side functions and strong security features score highly with experts. (sera)
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