2 hours later… Or years
Now if only my people I knew used signal instead of WhatsApp 🤦♀️
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?
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.
Let me guess American? In Europe basically everyone uses Whatsapp, lots of people use Telegram some use signal. I use all of them.
Yep, you are correct.
Yeah when I got my first smartphone and whatsapp wasn’t around yet I had to pay like 10 or 15 cents per sms. So when WhatsApp became an option everybody and their mother jumped ship and joined. For a while sending an sms and getting back I’m on WhatsApp was a thing.
Nowadays I think sms is basically part of your plan an for most plans unlimited. But they milked it way too hard back in the day. So most people just don’t use it at all.
Wild but now things make a lot more sense, I’ve had unlimited texts for the majority of the time I’ve had a cellphone.
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?
Why not? Uh, No. That’s why. Not now, not the 100th time, not ever. I want it to stop asking. No.
Mmkay well there’s no reason you shouldn’t do that, so there’s no reason you should see that prompt more than once, so don’t expect anyone else to care. And this change won’t affect that prompt.
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.
The mere existence of the permission is obscene.
It’s not, at all. It’s incredibly convenient
More spam messages then, ok…
You still need phone number verification to create an account, that hasn’t changed
So on the privacy front nothing has either. Good to know.
…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.
