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Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp (greenstarsproject.org)
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[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 year ago

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

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