Comment on Meredith Whittaker reaffirms that Signal would leave UK if forced by privacy bill
elmicha@feddit.de 9 months agoI’m curious how such a ban works. Of course they’ll tell Google and Apple to stop distributing the apps, but can’t you just sideload the app? Or are they blocking some network connections at the country level, or filtering DNS?
jet@hackertalks.com 9 months ago
It could get really interesting. Delisting from the app store would probably cover 90% of users.
People could still sideload, or use fdroid or VPNs.
If the UK got aggressive with internet filtering and blocked signals endpoints, signal proxies exist. But they would be slower for day-to-day use. Just like signal does for Iran.
We might see a resurgence of domain front running, which I believe cloudflare and AWS had harsh words for signal when they used it before. But if it’s the only option.
The internet will find a way to route basically. I have full faith in that