A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don’t promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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Why would you want SMS in Signal? The whole point of Signal is to be secure. SMS is not secure.
Proprietary messenger programs, even if they do encrypt your messages, probably do so in a way that allows the vendor and the government to read them.
Because I don’t want to have sixteen different messaging apps on my phone. While privacy and security are important to me, I’m also only so willing to put up shit user experience.
The reason I downloaded Signal in the first place was specifically because it could do both SMS and encrypted messaging. Then, over the years every new change either removed features I found useful (individual colors for each chat) or added ones that were just a distraction or actively bad (stickers, stories, PIN).
When they got rid of SMS and refused to back down, despite the outcry, I had no reason to keep it.
I’m not really understanding why this is an issue. Can you explain?
Because I simply don’t want that in my life? Why have a more complicated life when I can have simpler one?
Because the “simpler life” involves allowing spooks and marketers to read your conversations and use the data to brainwash and/or Minority Report you.
You are under attack. Defend yourself.
I’m well aware, and so is everyone else. And yet we’re all so apathetic about it that we’re not willing to put up with immediate annoyances to safeguard against vauge future potential problems.
The selling point for Signal for me was that I could tell people that it could do both SMS and encrypted messages, so they didn’t have to add an extra messaging app. It was literally encryption for normies.
Without that convenience? Fuck it. There’s no immediate value to me or any other normal person.