I remember a time when visiting a website that opens a javacript dialog box asking for your name so the message “hi <name entered>” could be displayed was baulked at.

Why does signal want a phone number to register? Is there a better alternative?

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Downvoted as you let them bait you. Escaping WhatsApp and Discord, anti-libre software, is more important.

    I don’t know what you mean by “bait” here, but…

    Escaping to a phone-number-requiring, centralized-on-Amazon, closed-source-server-having, marketed-to-activists, built-with-funding-from-Radio-Free-Asia (for the specific purpose of being used by people opposing governments which the US considers adversaries) service which makes downright dishonest claims of having a cryptographically-ensured inability to collect metadata? No thanks.

    (fuck whatsapp and discord too, of course.)