You mean they want to identify you from your credit card instead of your phone number? Bah.
It is almost as if they have no fucking clue who their customers are. Hilarious.
Not me. But the author.
From the official announcement
Can I buy an account on a device that has no Play Services?
Not yet. We have plans to add more payment methods, but currently only offer Play Store in-app payments, which requires Play Services.
Ok so given how long it took them to allow an alternative to phone numbers, it will probably be at least 5 years before you can pay using a de-googled phone. I really don’t understand what’s so hard for them to accept crypto, they already do for donations. Smells like government involvement.
That’s shitty, they have some cryptocoin don’t they? Sure it’s not great but if you exchange from some other currency and pay fast there’s not much risk
Yup they have their own crypto but they won’t accept it for creating accounts.
if you exchange from some other currency
Exactly. I can see why they probably won’t accept Monero for regulatory reasons, but just accept bitcoin so I can use a swap and pay with my monero
I didn’t expect to get cancer from a website called itsfoss.com, but I guess it’s time to put an adblocker on my tablet, too.
Adblocker is the minimum requirement for modern web.
Much better.
Firefox+unlock+unlock paywall extension is the bare minimum to navigate.
Brave as fallback if something breaks.
Could you all just stop trying to flee corporate greed jumping from one company to another? We already have XMPP, Matrix and other descentralized solutions.
Oddly enough, once you make that three fiddy payment signal will now potentially have a payment method linked to your account.
If this is true that payment method can essentially be tied to a identity.
I suppose the reason they are choosing to do this is to prevent a influx of bot accounts and spammers/scammers.
And if you are worried about Google’s involvement in this, Greyson Parrelli of the Signal team points out that the payment runs through the same zero-knowledge proof setup it uses for donations.
Looks like there is some way of decoupling the payer identity from the signal user
I figured they must be doing something along those lines, thanks for sharing!
I was about to say, I feel like it’s easier to get a burner phone number to sign up with than to find an anonymous way of paying them 3 bucks
Yeah why am I donating $10 a month every month for them to come up with shit like this. Google? Really? Now I question what else is going on behind the scenes.
I have this in Threema. Thank you
“I have $3”
-in the arms angels plays- Sarah m: “for only zero dollars, we could all migrate to reticulum and really inconvience the rich.” -slideshow of rich reptiles plays- “May you fiiiiiind some comfort here…”
Signal is not trustworthy, because they ban unofficial clients.
