Granted, the part

The globally recommended app by privacy and security experts, Signal, is now being downloaded massively and tops the Danish Google Play Store

is a little ironic, but you gotta push this winning tide and then work from that.

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    The issue is that it’s already pretty hard to convince people to use something easy like Signal, most people just don’t care enough for something “complicated” like XMPP-based messengers, especially if mainstream app stores had to stop letting EU-based users install messengers with these features.

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      Well, yes. But when it comes to digital independence Signal isn’t better than WhatsApp. At least recommend something like Threema if you think the much better alternatives are too hard.

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        Except Meta fully owns the WhatsApp metadata, and frankly Signal is a lot more trustworthy about its e2e implementation being actually, in practice, secure.