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Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe (www.bluewin.ch)

submitted 6 days ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Doesn't Signal work with phone numbers? They will probably block every EU number from accessing the service to protect themselves legally. Maybe you could use something like jmp.chat to circumvent that? Probably need a VPN as well to mask your IP. In any case, it will decimate the user base, so you're left chatting with yourself anyway.

[–] ashleythorne@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

To my understanding, you just need a phone number to make an account. I think it can be a burner number. But then if you ever lose access to the account you can't recover it.