Now if only my people I knew used signal instead of WhatsApp 🤦♀️
…so you can avoid sharing your phone number with your contacts.
they are not planning to let you use Signal without having a phone number and sharing it with their (Amazon’s) servers.
YES! The one main hurdle I’ve found (and the constant “share your contacts??” prompting). Good luck to them!
and the constant “share your contacts??” prompting
Why wouldn’t you just share your contacts? And what does this have to do with that?
Because my contacts are none of their business, and it’s fucking disgusting to even ask without the user going way out of their way to initiate it.
They’re not. And they won’t see any of your contacts. It just allows the app itself access to them.
There isn’t a single service on the planet who I would trust to allow their app to see my contacts.
The app asking for the permission is not acceptable. The permission should not exist at all. Both mobile OS should only be permitting users to explicitly import contacts that they choose, with literally no way for any app to see the master list in any context.
Signal has been through every trial and tribulation in existence. They’ve been audited by a dozen different companies, they’re open source, they’ve been subpoenaed by the government, etc. You’re just being paranoid.
How come the only people I ever meet that use these weird messaging apps are drug dealers and immigrants? 99% of people I meet use Snapchat or Facebook Messenger to talk to people if not SMS, only time I hear about Whatsapp IRL it’s the sketchiest people.
While I’m on the subject, is the person who designs the Snapchat user interface from this planet? Do they have severe mental deficiencies? It’s really the worst UI of any app or program I’ve ever experienced.
Nice! Maybe this will also pave the way for multiple accounts on the same device if you have two separate phone numbers for private and work.
Or just use SimpleX (same encryption tech as Signal anyhow).
Hopefully without the toxic devs?
What do you mean?
