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It’s not like your SMS messages are any more secure. If you message someone using Google’s RCS servers they’re going to be using Google Messages and it’s being read by Google either way. At least with RCS you can send pictures that don’t look like ass and sidestep all the reliability issues that SMS causes
No, they're not, but Google won't get them (unless, as you state, they use google's messaging app) Less Google, more better, in my opinion.
MMS hasn't been a thing at my provider for years now, so want to send me an image? Use Signal or whatsapp (begrudgingly). I already rarely receive or send SMS, so not enabling RCS isn't a big loss for me, I don't get added to Google's statistics (which they are so very proud off), and I won't really miss any of its features.