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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yup, makes sense, since Android is also Linux

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

AFAIK, the main difference is that Firefox's process isolation on Linux specifically is incomplete. They're working on fixing that.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago

Honestly, a very impressive move. Makes me way more confident in the trajectory of the company and I'm happy to have been a visionary user for multiple years.

I wonder, though, just how much of Proton A.G. does the foundation now own? They say it's the largest shareholder, but they didn't say "majority shareholder".

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Better than Firefox being blocked in Russia. Addons can be added from files anyway.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This. Nowadays people mostly buy TVs when their old ones break. There's no marginal improvement. The industry is here to stay, but its high growth days are in the past.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

From my experience of getting other people on Signal, the main issue is that not everyone is already on it. People generally want to use only one app and it attracts them to the most popular one because they don't need to switch as much.

Secondary issues are:

  • No automatic phone transfer (no cloud backups, has to be done manually)
  • No large public channels

I might add another one, but it applies to WhatsApp too - it's crazy that there's still no easy way to move between iOS and Android...

[–] [email protected] 75 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I suspect a lot of CSAM searches come from underage users themselves

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Wdym "boring", what do you want a messenger app to do? It does what it's there for and it does it well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Personally, I care about the phone number requirement not because I don't want to reveal it to Signal servers, but because it limits access to Signal for people in countries that block their SMS service - registration messages just don't arrive

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This is important context. Signal needs to make phone numbers optional...

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