https://kmlawfirm.com/2023/02/28/its-not-what-you-say-its-ho...
I'll be blunt and say I don't trust governments to "do the right thing" so the only way past this is to normalize using it for all use cases and doing so protects vulnerable people.
For example in germany, while i wouldnt trust the government, there are some decent laws the founding fathers made after ww2 that are hard to change.
So just because you use something like tor, signal is not enough. You need to be proven guilty by harder facts so using this is no danger.
Even with laws on the books, people enforce (or not) the law.
One is that they worry that if only criminals use the tool, the tool will be targeted by legislators and simple possession/ usage of the tool will eventually be criminalized.
The other is that there needs to be a crowd of innocent people to hide the guilty person and make the investigators / prosecutors work hard to find other corroborating evidence of the crime (not just using the channel of comms).
A third that has nothing to do with crime is that all people deserve to have strong privacy and we should normalize using a very secure method of comms.
Without that, they won't ever reach mass adoption because WhatsApp and Telegram are already there and are superior in basically every way.
They removed SMS to preserve that safety and security. It isn't a for profit business. We are the ones motivated to help them get adopted. if donations don't correlate with increased users Signal actually can't tolerate growth.
Do whatsapp or telegram have the same models? Can you tell if you are the customer or the product with them?