I remember a time when visiting a website that opens a javacript dialog box asking for your name so the message “hi <name entered>” could be displayed was baulked at.

Why does signal want a phone number to register? Is there a better alternative?

  • rirus@feddit.org
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    7 hours ago

    Your wrong, except the rich person part. That rich guy is the WhatsApp founder, who got the money by selling their users to Facebook.