Nowadays, a majority of apps require you to sign up with your email or even worse your phone number. If you have a phone number attached to your name, meaning you went to a cell service/phone provider, and you gave them your ID, then no matter what app you use, no matter how private it says it is, it is not private. There is NO exception to this. Your identity is instantly tied to that account.
Signal is not private. I recommend Simplex or another peer to peer onion messaging app. They don’t require email or phone number. So as long as you protect your IP you are anonymous
Signal is private, what you should differentiate is being anonymous or not. Using your usual phone number is NOT Anonymous but is PRIVATE, as in the content of your messages being only available to you and the person you’re talking to
The way you get a phone number depends on you too, so you can be very much be Anonymous even if signal requires a phone number.
People who actually care about privacy: the quality or state of being apart from company or observation (definition), wouldn’t want a company knowing their phone number and thus identity tied to their phone number. Maybe you believe in a lower level of privacy than I do. That’s fine but my post was for people who never thought about it but will care and those who should care.
This is disturbing that this comment is down voted to -11, at the time of my reading, on a service that is specifically designed for people who value privacy. Is it because of some government bot, or are enough people really that emotionally attached to this product that despite the clear logic they are reacting in discomfort?
I don’t know which option is more disturbing.
I get that a lot of people don’t really value privacy that much, and are only interested in making a half hearted attempt. That is fine. But why the gross amount of denial? Why not just be honest that they think it is good enough for them, and not worth changing.
These people are sheep. It’s insanity. They worship these companies I feel like I’m arguing with cultist
Signal doesn’t know your phone number, though. It’s only used to identify other users in your contacts, and not a single thing about it is stored.
That’s not true. When asked to provide data, Signal is able to give your phone number and the last login time.
Wow. You give them your phone number to sign up. They text you a confirmation code but they don’t know your phone number. Magic