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Yeah, any discussion of anonymity and Signal can start and end with phone numbers. They could maybe offer an option to use just a username and some kind of authentication? But somehow they don’t :(

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So many are missing the point here- Signal is *private*, not anonymous. They are two different things.

We'd hope it's that, but the data collection isn't a good sign that it's private either.

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