Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025

TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• oppy1984@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Signal has already stated that they will pull out of the UK if they go through with their version of this, I imagine they’ll say the same for the EU.

  Get a good VPN, exit it from a non-5 eyes country, and hope they don’t start blocking by phone number alone… and hopefully they’ll drop the phone number requirement sooner than later.

  Also, welcome to Signal!

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  • camr_on@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think they already dropped the phone number req, not sure though

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    • jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      No, still required. However, you can have a username of sorts to give to people and block finding you by phone number in the platform.

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      • camr_on@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Ah, that’s what I was thinking of then

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