Well after viewing almost 1200 posts over what 2 or 3 yr span I lost count. I have to say I am so glad I choose to never use google messages. All to give google a bunch of permissions on top of GPS regardless if its sandboxes. All of which collect tons of meta data plus all message content sent via SMS from those not using RCS.
The worst thing that ever happened to messaging for me was Signal ceasing SMS function. It did what google and carriers seem incapable of getting to work smoothly with much higher security and privacy. No processing every IP phone number every contact on your phone all added to that ever growing and detailed profile on each user. In one brush stroke Signal list almost 90% of even encrypted traffic as without SMS people just stopped using it. I had the entire and much of the extended family using it as it got all ams traffic. That stopped and within a year they never used it and when a new phone was purchased it was not installed again.. I seriously wonder if the federal govs incentivised them financially to kill SMS function regardless of their public reason claims.
But this Google messenger rcs function is a joke compared to Signal w SMS func. Obviously RCS can be killed by google or the carrier and unless people are paying attention its all in the clear. Like all things google its never free and always has the root goal of collection and control of personal data, trends, and comm pipelines.
Here we are years later and people still can't get what is supposed to be fully automated RCS function to work