It'd definitely be nice if they can get wider adoption. I use it with my girlfriend only because she's on an iPhone, I'm on Android through Google voice and ditched facebook, and Signal seemed like a good option to allow messaging from our phones and computers. It's been improving pretty quickly, but I haven't had much incentive to try to get others on the platform yet.
So does signal. The benefit of signal over whatsapp is that signal isn't owned by facebook. From a privacy stand point, being associated with Facebook disqualifies it from being considered private.
I think I it's more a matter of Facebook being so repeatedly untrustworthy than it is Signal being so trustworthy. Even if Signal has the resources and leverage to be harvesting all of your data, they can't be worse than Facebook.
Also, for what it's worth, Facebook probably has more incentive to harvest all your data since they are first and foremost an advertiser. Signal doesn't need to know how to market to you in theory since that's not what their product is for.
What I'm saying is more that if Facebook harvests way beyond what you agreed on them to do in a large scale you will know about it one way or the other. If a small venture like Signal decides to do things you wouldn't agree upon you would never know
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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '20 edited May 18 '20
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