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?
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?
It’s private but it’s not anonymous. they know who is talking to who, but not what they are talking about.
That’s not exactly true. See Sealed sender: https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/