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Signal Enables Phone Number-less Registration in Beta (www.privacyguides.org)

submitted 18 hours ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1406805/signal-enables-phone-number-less-registration-in-beta

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 50 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The registration is only available on Android for now and costs a one-time fee of $2.99. The fee is meant to make it financially infeasible for spammers to create thousands of accounts and ruin Signal's network.

The payment is currently only offered through Play Services, but more payment methods are planned for the future. This means that users who don't have Play Services, such as people running GrapheneOS without Sandboxed Google Play, won't be able to try the feature out just yet.

[–] bertlewirth@lemy.lol 4 points 6 hours ago

so now instead of just your phone number, now they have a LOT of other info about you. Makes sense. Privacy!