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

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

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    Do not trust signal. Mosk advertised it on twitter.

    Edit: I only got 11 downvotes yet, so i have to add:

    Signal is not allowed in Russia, guess why. Telegram is. yes yes try harder. THINK mf

    WhatsApp is obviously not recommended.

    I’m not saying don’t use. I’m saying do not trust.

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

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          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.