r/technology • u/indig0sixalpha • Feb 17 '25

Social Media X is blocking links to Signal

https://www.theverge.com/news/613997/x-blocks-signal-me-links-errors
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u/CadeMan011 Feb 17 '25

I'm guessing she loves telegram, though, right?

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u/VeeDubBug Feb 17 '25

I actually have no idea on that one. She uses Facebook, Whatsapp, and Messenger predominately.

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u/ComprehensiveWord201 Feb 17 '25

I see she loves selling her data

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u/nilsph Feb 17 '25

*giving her data away

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u/j_demur3 Feb 17 '25

I don't have any issue with Signal being effectively a free for all, that's just the price of privacy and like, if people want to talk about criminal activities they'll always find a safe way to do it.

But then when it comes to WhatsApp, they tell us it's fully private and end-to-end encrypted with no compromises (apart from a report button that sends messages from your phone to HQ) and if that's true they have no knowledge or control about shady shit being discussed.

It's like, they either are secure and therefore there's nothing stopping anything that's happening on Signal happening there or they aren't and can see your messages despite insisting they can't. They can't win at one without losing at the other, like, it'll be interesting to see their response if a high-profile crime is or isn't stopped and it comes out that things were organised via WhatsApp.

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u/EmbarrassedHelp Feb 18 '25

She may have been radicalized by anti-encryption propoganda from the UK, Australia, the EU, or the US.