So I downloaded the app out of curiosity, and while the app advocates itself as anonymous or privacy friendly, first thing it asks you in the sign up process is

So I downloaded the app out of curiosity, and while the app advocates itself as anonymous or privacy friendly, first thing it asks you in the sign up process is your phone number, and then asks you to add your contacts, and later the whole mechanism of communication is basically based on phone numbers.. phone numbers aren’t secure, aren’t private, some countries even require biometric to register the numbers (aka SIM cards IMEI) and maintain a db of it [1], so why not just use texts at this point?! Even iMessage can use apple ID instead numbers now. [1] https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/sim-card-registration-laws/ https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/sim-card-regist...