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Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage by franky47 on Thursday March 14, 2019 @06:35AM (#19387977)
Signal on Android relies upon Google Play Services for the microphone and camera permissions, which can't be turned off. It is open-source [1] so one could install it without going through the Google Play Store (it's not on F-Droid though), but it's another case of Google's ever-expanding grasp over "interesting" (read: competing) Android apps.

[1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android

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Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage by Vinnl on Thursday March 14, 2019 @07:18AM (#19388194)
It only depends on GPS if you actually have that installed. I don't, and Signal works fine using an official package (which you install the first time from their website, after which it self-updates).
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Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage by _Microft on Thursday March 14, 2019 @08:14AM (#19388490)
Wasn't the real reason that Moxie Marlinspike considered hosting with Google less questionable than allowing installing apps from third party sites?
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