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I tried to find the binary blobs in Signal for android but it looks like a Kotlin app to me. Maybe these were there at one point but were removed later, who knows.
Come to think of it I'm surprised that we can say "no Google play services" but in the same breath support MicroG as if the client apps have anything to do with which version of Play Services they support.