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Re:Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubu... by dheera on Thursday November 03, 2022 @12:51PM (#33453833)
> no third party clients

Isn't their client open source? If I compiled it myself, is that a third party client?

If they don't let me compile it myself, how can I trust their official version is using the source they published?

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Re:Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubu... by alias_neo on Thursday November 03, 2022 @03:03PM (#33455783)
You can build their client and use it yourself, but they don't want you to distribute it and they don't want you using their infra and API from a third party client.
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Re:Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubu... by maccam94 on Thursday November 03, 2022 @10:33PM (#33461253)
They don't want people distributing unofficial builds that claim to be Signal due to the risk of supply chain attacks against users.
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