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Re:Reverse Engineering WhatsApp Web by pmlnr on Monday April 09, 2018 @03:45PM (#16796302)
Signal relies on GCM, and needs a smartphone app. I'm failing to see the win.
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Re:Reverse Engineering WhatsApp Web by ce4 on Monday April 09, 2018 @04:23PM (#16796637)
Not anymore since 3.30.0. Also CopperheadOS maintained a fork on their fdroid repo without the hard Google Play store dependency.

https://copperhead.co/android/docs/usage_guide#signal

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Re:Reverse Engineering WhatsApp Web by pmlnr on Monday April 09, 2018 @04:25PM (#16796662)
The more I dig into Signal, the more complicated everything with it is.

Just go XMPP with OMEMO, so no hard smartphone dependency, no electron app monsters. Thankfully XMPP doesn't have a problem with 3rd party and federation.

https://omemo.top/

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