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Re:Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp by mkj on Saturday June 21, 2025 @02:44AM (#44335143)
Plausible they're anonymously proxying the captcha to google?
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Re:Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp by reconnecting on Saturday June 21, 2025 @03:09AM (#44335318)
No, there is (or was) just Google Captcha. Here is issue on Github about it.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/6002

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Re:Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp by AlecSchueler on Saturday June 21, 2025 @02:49AM (#44335171)
It's possible but if there's no transparency you can also assume the worst
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Re:Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp by balanc on Saturday June 21, 2025 @02:52AM (#44335193)
Is that something that can be done?
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Re:Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp by reconnecting on Saturday June 21, 2025 @02:56AM (#44335224)
It looks more like they are irresponsible with privacy.

Unless I'm mistaken, they use paid services provided by third parties, perhaps PayPal as indicated in the source code. But guess what - there's no mention of PayPal in privacy either.

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