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Do you still seriously need to give out your phone number to use it? Seems shady.
by midislack 4y ago
Do you still seriously need to give out your phone number to use it? Seems shady.
- BaseballPhysics 4y agoCan you just disagree with the design choice rather than implying, without evidence, nefarious motivations? Ongoing work is being done to enable Signal accounts without requiring a phone number (there's been a number of changes to the protocol to support this in the last 6-12 months), it's just not done yet.
- Gordonjcp 4y agoHow would you identify your phone otherwise?
- chinathrow 4y agoBy a random ID as others [1] do? [1] Threema
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 4y agoMAC address, randomised by the pocket-sized computer owner as needed. Perhaps laypersons are less able to distinguish computer networks from telephone networks than they were 20-30 years ago. Signal relies on a computer network. Signal runs on "personal computers" that are bundled with "phones", but not on phones that lack personal computers. Perhaps one day we will reach the point where "VoIP" becomes meaningless because all voice will be carried over IP.
- midislack 4y agoWhy do you need to identify your phone to use an online messaging service?
- donkarma 4y agoWith a username and password