← Back to context Comment by stavros 2 years ago Not if you've selected to hide your number, looks like. 11 comments stavros Reply bertman 2 years ago But will the other person really have two distinct chats with me in their list then? One with my username and one with my phone# ? stavros 2 years ago It depends on whether you want your number to be discoverable. In either case, they'll only have one chat, with your username. bertman 2 years ago Yeah, so they will indeed be able to link my phone number to my username, even if the number is set to "hidden".This sounds unfortunate, but I guess there's no way around this as long as Signal insist on keeping phone numbers as primary identifier. 7 replies → pyramid301 2 years ago [dead]
bertman 2 years ago But will the other person really have two distinct chats with me in their list then? One with my username and one with my phone# ? stavros 2 years ago It depends on whether you want your number to be discoverable. In either case, they'll only have one chat, with your username. bertman 2 years ago Yeah, so they will indeed be able to link my phone number to my username, even if the number is set to "hidden".This sounds unfortunate, but I guess there's no way around this as long as Signal insist on keeping phone numbers as primary identifier. 7 replies → pyramid301 2 years ago [dead]
stavros 2 years ago It depends on whether you want your number to be discoverable. In either case, they'll only have one chat, with your username. bertman 2 years ago Yeah, so they will indeed be able to link my phone number to my username, even if the number is set to "hidden".This sounds unfortunate, but I guess there's no way around this as long as Signal insist on keeping phone numbers as primary identifier. 7 replies →
bertman 2 years ago Yeah, so they will indeed be able to link my phone number to my username, even if the number is set to "hidden".This sounds unfortunate, but I guess there's no way around this as long as Signal insist on keeping phone numbers as primary identifier. 7 replies →
But will the other person really have two distinct chats with me in their list then? One with my username and one with my phone# ?
It depends on whether you want your number to be discoverable. In either case, they'll only have one chat, with your username.
Yeah, so they will indeed be able to link my phone number to my username, even if the number is set to "hidden".
This sounds unfortunate, but I guess there's no way around this as long as Signal insist on keeping phone numbers as primary identifier.
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