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Is conversations safe?
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this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
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Almost every current XMPP client, including conversations, supports OMEMO E2E encryption by default.
This happend with OMEMO, for the server just whatever jabber.network got me
Hmm. Ok, then the likelihood Google was monitoring anything is pretty low. Unless they were monitoring your screen or your microphone. Do you have any AI screenshot features enabled?
No, i don't even have gms and samsung apps (using samsung), no ai. The only google apps i have left are android system apps that if i removed my system will break. And the only samsung apps i have are settings, clock, camera and UI stuff
Ok. I’d say the likelihood it was a coincidence is pretty high then, but not 100%. We can’t really know all of what Google is monitoring when you use an Android phone, since their code on top of AOSP is closed source. It sounds unlikely that this was because of active monitoring though.
Fuck, i'm buying a pixel as soon as i get some cash. Graphene is the only solution left, or linux
If OMEMO was on, then Google didn't read your message. Also now you say you weren't using your Google account but a server from jabber.network? How about your interlocutor? If both of you were using an account for a random server on the jabber.network list, then Google wasn't reading your messages, even with OMEMO turned off.
I said that the google account was used as a recovery email, this is in the post btw
I don't think that was very clear since other people also assumed you were using it as your account in Conversations.
A recovery email doesn't really have anything to do with XMPP. Using Google or whatever won't make them be able to read your messages.
That what i tought, i'm not a bigginer, i know at least how to make a website with a backend. And a direct recommendation of a topic that was talked about in Conversations happend 2 times! That's 2 out of a potential 3 times. First when i got the instagram recomendation i thought my friend searched about the topic on instagram then I got the recomendation, then fucking youtube too? Wtf. And right after i finished the conversation.
Did you search for anything while having that conversation?
Nope
Notifications with full message contents?
We were both in the chat window, no notifications.
Then it's probably just a fluke.
The only vids i watch on ytb, are videogamesdunkey, nakeyjakey and gamersnexus
All I can tell you is that Conversations didn't send your messages to Google. The servers you used didn't send your messages to Google, and if you were using OMEMO, they couldn't even they wanted to.
Thnks, maybe the leak is from my sys apps
Very possible. Android works in shady ways.