Took WAY too long. And you still need a phone number to sign up. Wire (that uses the Signal Protocol and also has video chat never needed your phone number AFAIK)
Also, Signal loves to claim how secure it is, but they will never dare to tell you that participating in the Android and mainstream mobile systems nobody is secure. Especially not on Google Play. If the government wants to spy on you, they WILL! It does not matter if they can't decrypt your messages because they will be sucking the data right off your phone with invisible screenshots and AI transcribing the text or by other means like key logging. There are people who claim Pegasus does not even need you to click on some link anymore, all they need is your phone number. And Pegasus is for sure not the only thing out there.
Signal and others create the illusion of privacy, there is no privacy on any smartphone with any kind of mainstream OS. Probably not even on the "hardened" de-googled Android forks.
Also, Signal loves to claim how secure it is, but they will never dare to tell you that participating in the Android and mainstream mobile systems nobody is secure. Especially not on Google Play. If the government wants to spy on you, they WILL! It does not matter if they can't decrypt your messages because they will be sucking the data right off your phone with invisible screenshots and AI transcribing the text or by other means like key logging. There are people who claim Pegasus does not even need you to click on some link anymore, all they need is your phone number. And Pegasus is for sure not the only thing out there.
Signal and others create the illusion of privacy, there is no privacy on any smartphone with any kind of mainstream OS. Probably not even on the "hardened" de-googled Android forks.