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The Signal messenger and protocol.
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The SMS based pone number verification is one. Another one is google for reCaptcha used to create a signal account. There is also some google dependency for the face blurring. There may be more.
Thanks for reply! I have a Samsung phone that De-Googled %100~ (exclude some important Android depencies based on Google). I restored GMS for auth in Signal. After the auth, I uninstalled it back. There is no Youtube, no Google - Chrome, no Spotify etc. Just FOSSed and de-Googled phone. Do I still using Google Services indirect ways because of Signal? Is it possible to be another third-party sharing except phone verification?
To be honest, I'm not sure. Signal does not have an official f-droid build. They distribute an APK on their website for degoogled devices which allows for websockets to be used as the google notifications systems is not used on degoogled devices, but I'm unsure what it means for the rest of the dependency. Some dependencies can be shipped with the apk so do not require google services to be installed, but an expert should probably shime in to shed some light in this situation specifically.
It is a bit complex but at least we can say its safer than Meta. Still looking for sources and if I find something clear, I will add here for other Lemmiers. Thank you and Goodbye.