Ahead of an expected launch next year.
  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    …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.

  • Hauke@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • brothershamus@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    YES! The one main hurdle I’ve found (and the constant “share your contacts??” prompting). Good luck to them!

      • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        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.

          • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
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            1 year ago

            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.