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by gmazza 3559 days ago
And that is exactly why open IM protocols and 3rd party clients are so important.

If both you and your correspondents do use 3rd party IM client ([1], [2], etc), then just run OTR2 or OMEMO on top of the protocol, and let google store whatever it pleases - it's not going to be much use for them.

[1] https://pidgin.im/

[2] https://conversations.im/