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Except real privacy?
by rasso 3y ago
Except real privacy?
- sam_lowry_ 3y agoNot even that, because it is linked to phone numbers.
- OoooooooO 3y agoAfaik you can crrate an account without a number.
- wkat4242 3y agoNo. You can just hide it from other users in group chats now (and perhaps 1:1, didn't yet check but you still need one to sign up)
- crtasm 3y agoWhere is the option for group chats please?
- Obscurity4340 3y agoDoes that require the sealed-sender thingy?
- matricaria 3y agoNot yet, but they are working on that.
- leotravis10 3y agoYep, a great example: https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html#phone--identifiers https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html#phon...
- marvinborner 3y agoUsername registration is currently being tested: https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-username-testing-staging-environment/56866 https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-username-testing-...
- ixwt 3y ago> and register for a new account with a phone number (you can use the same one you’re using in Production). I hope that they make it so you can register WITHOUT a phone number. Perfectly fine if it's not the default. This is post is currently implying that is not currently the case.
- leshenka 3y agoSo this puts signal on par with telegram, not above? Am I missing something?
- Summershard 3y agoTelegram's encryption is opt-in which means most people don't use the encrypted chats at all.
- Summershard 3y agoSignal is private, but not anonymous. Related, but two different things.
- School-Cotton 3y agoWhy is it more private than WhatsApp?
- Ar-Curunir 3y agoI encourage you to read the article, but Signal minimizes the metadata it stores about you, doesn't hold on to you contact list, doesn't keep information about your IP address, etc. WhatsApp instead makes tons of money from this kind of metadata.
- crtasm 3y agoUsing WhatsApp means Facebook/Meta knows the timestamp, sender and recipient of every message sent.
- kroltan 3y agoPay attention to WhatsApp's wording (all privacy/security claims start with "your messages"), and their privacy policy, and you'll see that while message involving with individuals (non-Business users) are secured, your contact list is not, neither are chats with businesses or the metadata about you chatting (destinations, frequency, time)
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