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.
so now instead of just your phone number, now they have a LOT of other info about you. Makes sense. Privacy!
It only costs $2.99.
I’ll happily pay when they accept either crypto or an envelope of cash. There is no way to separate electronic payments or transfers from my personal identity and I don’t consider it usefully “private” to have any account directly traceable to that. Trust is a limited and increasingly valuable commodity, and I’m conserving mine.
That said, there’s probably a decent opportunity for second hand, no-strings-attached accounts to now be legitimately purchased then laundered anonymously through an arbitrary middleman without having use burner accounts stolen from innocent people or created with stolen identities. So maybe that’ll be an improvement for privacy. Privacy shouldn’t have to be illegal or inconvenient (but of course they want it to be).
And it’s one-time payment.
My card is ready! When I can on graphene
… 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.
Yeah? That’s what I was saying. I’ll pay when I can on graphene
Just yet is better than not at all, I think.
What in the absolute fuck. Signal disappoints again.
…just yet.
Honestly it should be their highest priority to make shit available without Google spyware. It’s truly stunning.
How about an open source server implementation? How about federation of servers? This fixes nothing. I’m still on XMPP.
Awesome. Tested and works great.
