> this can't possibly put peoples lives in more danger than using signal without a proxy a week ago would've.
I see one reason it could, it filters out people who do "need" to use it. It could even be people who did not use it before, but think it's undetectable now. Signal implies it can't be detected, at least to non-technical readers.
>Unlike a standard HTTP proxy, connections to the Signal TLS Proxy look just like regular encrypted web traffic. There’s no CONNECT method in a plaintext request to reveal to censors that a proxy is being used.