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Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong(www.wired.com)

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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Incidentally, this explains why Signal insists that the app has to be installed through the Play store as opposed to f-droid.

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Strictly speaking, you can download it directly from their website, but IIRC, the build will still default to trying to use Google Play Services, and only fall back to a different service if Google Play Services is not on the device. Signal really, really wants to give Google insight into who is messaging who.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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exactly, vast majority of users will be going through Google’s store when installing it

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