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Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees (twitter.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

It’s sad that the EU doesn’t get how bad of an idea this is for Signal to just fully nope out of the European market.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Signal will also leave the EU market before they will give their iOS Version a backup-option (something the Android version has since years). I carry a 52 GB data blob with me that takes 15 hours to transfer from old-to-new-phone and that I could lose anytime my phone gets lost. Just because Signal does not think iOS user should be able to save their data.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

  1. I marvel a bit at the 52 GB blob. Don't you think you could maybe trim back to the past x thousand messages in your chats? Or delete some media?

  2. I think tge decision is not because they want to hurt iOS users but because the iOS file system is extremely handicapped and the iOS cloud backup is not e2e-encrypted.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

1984 was a warning not a guidebook