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Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp
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this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2025
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First, signal doesn't come anywhere close in feature parity.
Second, the CEO (disingenuously) stated they dropped SMS support because of engineering costs - , I don't trust them.
There are free SMS apps, because your app hasn't handled SMS ever, you just use the SMS API. Android itself handles it all - as of about 2012, all apps were required to use a single SMS database.
SMS? Outside the USA it's used for almost nothing but 2FA codes at this point.
I thought they removed SMS so as to not give the impression that SMS is at all private or secure