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Melody Fwygon
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Hold it there Privacy Enthusiasts!

Read this first, it explains the learning technology: https://federated.withgoogle.com/

Read the article! The change isn’t live yet…and you can likely disable it once it drops.

“While an exact date is still unknown,” Bard says, “all signs point towards Bard’s arrival in Google Messages sometime in 2024. It could be a matter of weeks or months, but it’s definitely coming.” Meanwhile, what we’ve seen thus far remains buried deep inside a beta release and subject to change before release.

ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃
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Good, gives me time to switch to a FOSS sms app…

Big_Boss_77
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Have one you can recommend for someone who’s tech savvy but just wants it to work out of the box?

ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃
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I just use SMS Messenger from F-Droid.

Dem Bosain
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Fossify SMS Messages?

Melody Fwygon
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I hear there’s a fork of Signal that doesn’t remove SMS, but idk what it’s called.

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