OK, now do the trick for having an Apple ID and using an apple product. iMessage is a tiny slice from the data hording that apple is doing when you use their services.

A company in a significant scale that is not hording user data and is 100% pro-privacy and user protection has yet to come.

Hence, my wish that the EU will install a "Great Firewall" to block all the American tech so European tech has a chance to evolve - similar how China did that SUPER SUPER successful.