They claim it’s “zero knowledge” proof through Google pay, meaning that Google will know you paid Signal, and Signal knows you paid them, but there is no link between the two that uses your PII payment info to identify the Signal account.
I’m inclined to believe them.
Unless you wait a good while to use what you paid for (if that’s even possible), then I doubt it’d be hard to connect the dots. Never mind connecting transaction records.
That’s not ok either! Just stop playing these games and stop obstructing self hosting. When they come to round up all the Signal users, they won’t care what account belongs to who. So there should be no database that identifies the users.
Lmao, it can be achieved in better ways; they can just use a ZKP FLOSS captcha (such as Anubis, but adapted for native apps, there are some), or manual verification (such as most XMPP or Matrix instances, and even more general online services providers such as Disroot [this one uses Anubis AND manual email verification for the signup process, then only Anubis]).
They’re shady asf, and now are being exclusionary towards these who can’t pay? Hell naw, fuck 'em
They claim it’s “zero knowledge” proof through Google pay, meaning that Google will know you paid Signal, and Signal knows you paid them, but there is no link between the two that uses your PII payment info to identify the Signal account. I’m inclined to believe them.
Unless you wait a good while to use what you paid for (if that’s even possible), then I doubt it’d be hard to connect the dots. Never mind connecting transaction records.
It’s the exact same privacy protection as signing up with a phone number.
Could use a refillable credit card.
That’s not ok either! Just stop playing these games and stop obstructing self hosting. When they come to round up all the Signal users, they won’t care what account belongs to who. So there should be no database that identifies the users.
If “they” get to the point of rounding up all Signal users, not using Signal will not prevent you from being rounded up.
If Google and Signal collude can they link payments to accounts via timing attacks? My guess is yes
If they pass through Google infrastructure, then it’s a no.
Also, why would you have to pay for something that should be a completely free and basic feature?
They’re completely off the rails.
Bot protection
Lmao, it can be achieved in better ways; they can just use a ZKP FLOSS captcha (such as Anubis, but adapted for native apps, there are some), or manual verification (such as most XMPP or Matrix instances, and even more general online services providers such as Disroot [this one uses Anubis AND manual email verification for the signup process, then only Anubis]).
They’re shady asf, and now are being exclusionary towards these who can’t pay? Hell naw, fuck 'em