They are [1] implementing unlinkable payments so all that is known by credit card is that you purchased Signal and Signal doesn't know which credit card goes with which account.
>Signal is an obvious honeypot.
Claims without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. You might say they don't do enough to protect metadata privacy but it was never made to be an anonymous messenger, it was made to be a private messenger. You can easily check the end-to-end encryption in the code (reproducible builds on all platforms except iOS BTW!). This person audited Signal recently [2].
>They make no money and have no plans to.
They make money from donations and paid backups and they might make money from paid accounts.
> Lol how is that any better at all?
They are [1] implementing unlinkable payments so all that is known by credit card is that you purchased Signal and Signal doesn't know which credit card goes with which account.
>Signal is an obvious honeypot.
Claims without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. You might say they don't do enough to protect metadata privacy but it was never made to be an anonymous messenger, it was made to be a private messenger. You can easily check the end-to-end encryption in the code (reproducible builds on all platforms except iOS BTW!). This person audited Signal recently [2].
>They make no money and have no plans to.
They make money from donations and paid backups and they might make money from paid accounts.
[1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/7da3357b5...
[2] https://soatok.blog/2025/02/18/reviewing-the-cryptography-us...