• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    The identifier absolutely does not need to be your phone number, and plenty of other apps are able to do push notifications without harvesting personal information from the users.

    Meanwhile, normies don’t need Signal in the first place since e2ee primarily protects you from things like government agencies snooping on your data.