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Signal Will Let You Sign Up Without a Phone Number — For $3
itsfoss.com/news/signal-numberless-registration/Replying to @Crumpled6273@lemmy.ca
Oddly enough, once you make that three fiddy payment signal will now potentially have a payment method linked to your account.
If this is true that payment method can essentially be tied to a identity.
I suppose the reason they are choosing to do this is to prevent a influx of bot accounts and spammers/scammers.
Replying to @NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
And if you are worried about Google’s involvement in this, Greyson Parrelli of the Signal team points out that the payment runs through the same zero-knowledge proof setup it uses for donations.
Looks like there is some way of decoupling the payer identity from the signal user
Replying to @lama@lemmy.world
I figured they must be doing something along those lines, thanks for sharing!
Replying to @lama@lemmy.world
What zero-knowledge god damn? You are submitting your payment details, anything after that is pinky promise.
Replying to @NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
I was about to say, I feel like it’s easier to get a burner phone number to sign up with than to find an anonymous way of paying them 3 bucks