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Just use signal. There's nothing wrong with signal.
Signal won't be able to protect you from Chat Control.
Realistically, the best option is still to try and fight it.
What is chat control?
EU regulation to scan all messages on user devices
The theory is that it will scan on device before it's encrypted. Would XMPP clients (as long as their developers don't comply) be safe?
Not an expert on the topic, but I guess this will come down to companies providing the services (meta, signal, telegram...) to embed the scanning.
If they don't force google/apple to implement it somehow for all outgoing messages (traffic?)
Google removing sideloading conveniently plays into this...
centralized , phone number . yet another telegram / whatsaap clone