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Get people to use Signal as a text messaging replacement app (the default Android one isn't that great anyway). Then, when they send you a message from it, the
by mtgx 9y ago
Get people to use Signal as a text messaging replacement app (the default Android one isn't that great anyway).
Then, when they send you a message from it, the message will be E2E because you have Signal installed, too.
- izacus 9y agoSignal severely breaks SMS handling on Android (it hijacks the store and stops reporting SMS to the OS, breaking backups, sync and other uses) so that's really not a good idea.
- jorams 9y agoThe problem with that approach is that in Europe (at least parts of it, I'm from the Netherlands and this probably doesn't apply to every single country), "text messaging" was largely replaced by WhatsApp. Getting someone to contact you over SMS instead of WhatsApp already requires a change in behavior. Once you have to explain to someone why you want them to contact you through something other than WhatsApp, the SMS angle is already irrelevant.