He makes valid points, I don't think anyone ever claimed signal to be the best way to message privately. What it DOES do is make private messaging easily accessible for normies.

Not that I disagree with the video though, requiring a phone number etc are not beneficial to privacy and caters to normies, maybe too much.

At least soon they'll release the feature to sign up without a number. Just took a while to get there.

That amount is still too low. Cost of doing business. No lessons will be learned.

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Yup, this is my setup. GrapheneOS with a Framework laptop and Linux installed. I basically always have my camera and microphone physically switched off on my laptop + strict camera and mic permissions on my phone

That would be so sick if that's the fix!

Because I do the same thing, I back my phone up to a flash drive every night and have experienced this several times, so I'm glad my experience could help someone else out

The only time this happens to me is if I run a backup (settings > system > backup) and choose to back up the VPN app, which usually "reports no data to be backed up", so I exclude the VPN app from being included in my backup. Are you running a backup nightly when you charge?

I'm aware they lag behind in updates, only reason I chose to use Molly was because if I recall correctly they use Google Firebase for notifications, and I use grapheneOS and don't have Google play service installed. So not sure if I would get notifications in my setup if I used signal witn no play services.

Correct me if I'm wrong though

Those are also my two biggest gripes about Signal as well. At least the Molly fork solves both of those issues, that's what I use.

Agreed. They should not have tied it into a Google account, literally ruins the whole point of being anonymous on there. I get they needed to implement some sort of easy payment method, but this isn't it.

Only thing I could think to do is create a burner Google account, buy a Google play card in cash, and add those funds to your burner account to pay the 3 dollars.

No duh bro. More than one person can live at a house though. So USPS knows who owns the house like you said, but not anyone extra unless that data is given to them, like for example when you create an account and include that you ALSO live at an address as the owner.

Moreover, if you read USPS privacy policy, they use Google Analytics, so guess what? Anything you do on USPS also goes to Google. They also allow tracking pixels from meta, LinkedIn, and several other companies.

So no, it's not just "the fucking USPS already has your address dude", it's that several other companies also are getting that data when they dont need to be. That's literally the whole point of this forum and the data I provided above is relevant. All I'm saying is if someone wants a PO box, it's not as private as one may assume. The seller you're buying from won't know your address, but tons of tech companies will.

I honestly hate people like you. Learn to be more curious and ask questions instead of trying to be a smart ass. You could have asked "But why worry that USPS already has your address, aren't they literally a delivery company?" That's a completely valid question, yet you chose to be a dick. Go fuck yourself.

Correct, the seller wouldn't know, I'm just saying that that data now goes to UPS or whoever your PO box provider is instead of the website you're purchasing from