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As Signal get your phone number. Can we considerate this application as private ? What's your thoughts about it ? I'm also using SimpleX, ElementX, Threema, but not much people using it...

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[–] Tundra@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

https://signal.org/android/apk/

and if you want, you can use molly-foss to remove google notification services

[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago

I agree that there are workarounds, but I find it frustrating that Signal devs are ignoring very obvious security and privacy issues like this. It erodes trust and my enthusiasm to use Signal.

[–] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just switched to molly-foss and am using mollysocket and have no issues

[–] Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Was it just a simple switch or would I have to convince everyone to use Molly instead of Signal all over again? Like can I just get Molly and transfer over my contacts and history and all that?

[–] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Molly was easy enough, switching the notifications was a bit more painful. I found that the airgapped solution worked more seamlessly than the web server though