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Or you could....you know.... NOT use your name as your screen name. That's like buying a hammer and complaining that the nail remover side isn't efficient at removing screws. Well.....yeah. You're not meant to use it that way.
If you actually read my comment before replying to it, I already addressed this. I use Signal in my personal and professional life. I do not want my clients to message me and see my ID as fucking xX_StarLord_69_Xx. Nor my family. It would be very confusing to them. If Signal gave me an option to use multiple profiles (like SimpleX does) I would, but it doesn't.
And if you read what I said, YOU'RE USING IT FOR THE WRONG PURPOSES!!!
LOL you think messaging friends, family and clients is "the wrong purpose"? According to whom?
Edward Snowden.
You don't know what you're talking about.
You're using a messaging app that was built with the express intent of being private and encrypted. You're asking why you can't have a right to privacy when you use your real name as your display handle in order to hide your phone number.
Yes, it does hide your phone number, by using your screen name as your identity.
If you then use personal details as your screen name, you can't get mad at the app for not hiding your personal details. That's not how this app works. That was never how this app worked.
Chatting with your friends and clients isn't what this app is for. This isn't facebook. There are other apps for that. This isn't that.
Yes.
I didn't ask anything. I stated it definitively.
I've already explained this. I am not mad. I am telling you why it's a bad product for activism.
That's...exactly what it's for. And I don't know where you got the idea that it's not. It's absurd. Certainly Snowden never said anything of the sort. Signal themselves never said anything of the sort.
Of course there are. They're varying degrees of not private, secure, or easy to use.