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Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 day ago by 0101100101@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I remember a time when visiting a website that opens a javacript dialog box asking for your name so the message "hi " could be displayed was baulked at.

Why does signal want a phone number to register? Is there a better alternative?

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[–] MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And then went back on it to advertise telegram lmao

Btw don’t use computers, Musk use them

[–] m532@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Computers don't steal your data for musk regime tho. Signal does. Telegram does not.

[–] MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Telegram leaks your data, including to France, which is my country, so they can go fuck themselves.

Telegram isn’t even E2EE. It’s like recommending Russia's Discord over Signal…

Computers don't steal your data for musk regime tho. Signal does.

I guess Microsoft isn’t a USA company. And Signal is apparently for-profit. And ICANN isn’t in the USA…

I love how Signal (doesn’t, according to you) takes months to invent a proxy to load GIFs and link previews through, so as not to leak your IP to the (American) companies.