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Re:Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames by penteract on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @11:12PM (#39450078)
> The ToS is the only thing that governs end users connecting to the API, and it doesn’t deny end users the use of third party clients.

"You must not (or assist others to) access, use, modify, distribute, transfer, or exploit our Services in unauthorized manners" [1]

By my reading, the ToS does deny the use of third party clients. Someone could try to argue that a third party is using the services in the same manner as the authorized first party client, therefore it doesn't break the ToS; but since the company's leadership have said that's not OK (causing the mentioned client to stop being updated), I'd assume that if that argument worked in court, they'd just change the ToS to be more explicit about stopping it.

[1] https://signal.org/legal/

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Re:Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames by dns_snek on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @07:36AM (#39453031)
Who would you take to court? LibreSignal is simply distributing software, it's the users who are potentially breaking Signal's ToS by connecting to their servers using unauthorized clients.

This is like attempting to sue qBittorrent for copyright infringement.

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