I thought peoples big problem with it was not wanting to give others their number to use signal?
The issue is that giving your phone number to Signal Messenger LLC is giving it to others, and therefore not keeping it private in the usual sense of the word.
Some people may be unconcerned about a corporation knowing their number vs. their contacts knowing their number, but that doesn’t diminish the misleading aspect of this headline.
A number is still needed to register I believe.
Indeed, which makes their headline a bit misleading. Giving Signal your phone number is not keeping it private.
What modern features do you mean?
The only problem I’ve noticed since uMatrix stopped getting updates is that I now have to Ctrl+Shift+R instead of just Ctrl+R to get scripts to work after adjusting a site’s permissions.
Because fucking google pixels are the only devices that meet the GrapheneOS developer’s requirements.
I agree that it’s disappointing, both because google has incentives to abuse their control of the hardware and because of the electronic waste created by devices that lose support after an arbitrary number of years.
But that’s how it is, at least for now. In the meantime, there’s always LineageOS.