Moving from WhatsApp to Signal is an important action, right now. WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, has been involved in several cases of election interference: America in 2016, Trinidad and Tobago …
First, signal doesn’t come anywhere close in feature parity.
Second, the CEO (disingenuously) stated they dropped SMS support because of engineering costs - , I don’t trust them.
There are free SMS apps, because your app hasn’t handled SMS ever, you just use the SMS API. Android itself handles it all - as of about 2012, all apps were required to use a single SMS database.
First, signal doesn’t come anywhere close in feature parity.
Second, the CEO (disingenuously) stated they dropped SMS support because of engineering costs - , I don’t trust them.
There are free SMS apps, because your app hasn’t handled SMS ever, you just use the SMS API. Android itself handles it all - as of about 2012, all apps were required to use a single SMS database.
I thought they removed SMS so as to not give the impression that SMS is at all private or secure
SMS? Outside the USA it’s used for almost nothing but 2FA codes at this point.