I remember a time when visiting a website that opens a javacript dialog box asking for your name so the message “hi <name entered>” could be displayed was baulked at.

Why does signal want a phone number to register? Is there a better alternative?

  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago
    1. When people would complain about JS on webpages, they were not.
    2. Completely different things overlap all the time.
    3. Because your status updates and messages are encrypted and stored (until retrieved, of course) once for every recipient, and that includes your other devices and their other devices.
    • solrize@lemmy.world
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      26 minutes ago

      Because your status updates and messages are encrypted and stored (until retrieved, of course) once for every recipient, and that includes your other devices and their other devices.

      I’d like to see a numerical estimate of how much data this is. But, it sounds to me like more reason to want to self-host.

      I don’t see any point to rehashing the other stuff. Non-TLS websites mostly went away once DNS spoofing at wifi hotspots became widespread.