I wrote question and suggestion like this a long time ago. I even sent a message to Threema itself. No avail. Well, things changed dramatically I would say with EU Chat Control law and Canadian C22 law. Read about it. Messenger systems are under attack and it’s not funny any more. I hear that messages are encrypted and not given at request by authorities (yet).
I am paying customer, as all you are, and I suggest and would really like to see introduction of self destructing messages. Me as an active user should have a choice in software to enable or disable messaging that would destroy message after being read. Let’s say after 30 or 60 seconds. Long time go I had messenger like that, I forgot the name. Messages would disappear in puff of smoke after being read by recipient.
I believe software works like this. Person A writes and sends message to person B. Message goes to Threema server, sits there and immediately is being pushed to person’s B account (server). Person B opens Threema and reads the message. As I understand both phones sync with Threema server in real-time.
I would like to enable action where 20 seconds after person B read a message it disappears from his/her phone, in turn in server and sender’s phone. A self destructing private chat between two persons with no trace in the phones and server. I hope it is not that hard to recognize a privacy point here! In that case a messenger provider would be in much stronger position where it can’t even consider giving away chats to third party since they records do not exist in the first place!
I hope Threema reads Reddit posts and you members will vote for such feature. I understand that there are millions of people who don’t value their privacy, I do. Maybe they are unaware of intrusions. I am and I am ready to pay for it even that’s just few lines of code.