Re:Signal's Sealed Sender anonymity is broken
by raybb on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @08:22PM
(#35063924)
Bummer. Have you given Element a shot recently? It has improved a lot and if you don't use the end to end encryption, it seems to be very reliable.
It always rings on the PC app, but on our phones it's always hit or miss. Only once you open the app when someone is calling you, does it finally decide to ring.
Googling around it seems many are impacted by this bug which has been around since forever, but no fix has been implemented and since the dev team seems mostly iOS focused, I doubt it will ever be. The lack of supporting linking to Android tablets is another blow for us when iPad support has been available since forever.
Shame. I respect Signal and its devs for doing what they did, but we need more than a barebones messaging app with focus on stickers and stories instead of fixing jarring bugs and missing Android features, so it looks like it's back to WhatsApp for us. It may be part of Zuck's empire but it has never ever let us down in any situation.