{"id":5226,"date":"2015-05-14T20:53:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T19:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=5226"},"modified":"2020-04-29T04:28:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T03:28:52","slug":"tox-a-decent-alternative-to-skype-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2015\/05\/tox-a-decent-alternative-to-skype-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Tox, a decent alternative to Skype etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is severely outdated, and only kept here for historical reasons.<\/em><\/p>\n

For years I have looked for a good alternative to Skype. Skype has some nice features including:<\/p>\n

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  1. Group conversations<\/li>\n
  2. Voice and video chat<\/li>\n
  3. A chat history<\/li>\n
  4. Good interface<\/li>\n
  5. Ease of use<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It also have some nasty features I diswant:<\/p>\n

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    1. Closed source<\/li>\n
    2. Ads<\/li>\n
    3. NSA et al spying<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      So, the quest is to find something that has 1-5 from the first list and nothing from the second list. Over the years, there have been various proposals: Hemlis (defunct<\/a>), Cryptocat<\/a>, Jitsi<\/a>, Pidgin, and so on. The EFF has a list here<\/a>. However, it does not include Tox.<\/p>\n

      Tox has all the four good features and none of the bad ones. It has multiple cross platform clients<\/a>. It beats Jitsi and Pidgin in good interface and ease of use, especially set-up. Personally, I like the qTox client<\/a>, but you may have another preference.<\/p>\n

      Adding people is pretty easy: they simply add your ID and you get a request, like with Skype. No need to set up servers, or make accounts etc.<\/p>\n

      If you want to reach me, my Tox ID is: 1728E9D22CDDDDBE314E002843E7F57A20365D40CF0F6B26803AD68A163E82710C78A5213A9B. Be sure to use some specific message so you don’t look like a bot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      This post is severely outdated, and only kept here for historical reasons. For years I have looked for a good alternative to Skype. Skype has some nice features including: Group conversations Voice and video chat A chat history Good interface Ease of use It also have some nasty features I diswant: Closed source Ads NSA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2169,2171,2170],"class_list":["post-5226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-secure-chat","tag-skype","tag-tox","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8596,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions\/8596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}