In countries where you MUST show your proof of identity to get a number, pray tell me what kind of OPSEC can you employ to not do that?

Only if you don’t have to show your ID to get a number

That depends on your OPSEC

It is not. You do not show any ID to get a phone number

The problem is, if you’re in Europe, your phone number is associated with your identity

Arguable in it being “the best app for privacy”. Can you link to a source which shows that phone numbers are not linked to accounts? (Why do they need them anyway?)

Sure they don’t log the IPs, but it is technically impossible to not know the IP when you’re running a centralized service.

Good idea overall, unfortunately they still have your IP and phone number which means Europeans are still implicated

Nobody is hacking your computer LMAO. It just lets them establish a connection to your computer to leech the file(s), nothing more

And because some random report from a third-party who is just as interested in profit said something that matches the worldview of the general masses is out, you’re going to believe them?

I don’t care what “tech” it is, they are incentivized to lie and you know it. I am still baffled at how absolutely anyone takes the word of corporations to heart

How do you think your friend in the woods got the advertisements?

And yes, I still think you’re too trusting of Big Tech. They are 100 times more vile than you think they are. THEY WILL do everything they can, and this is nothing to them.

The funny part is nobody wants to believe me and instead want to trust for-profit companies for their supposed pinkie-promises. Oh well, they’ll learn in time.

I do not see why everyone wants to deny this and trust big tech. Are you lot completely brainwashed?? Assume the worst, that malicious applications are recording both your microphone and your camera, and do the best you can. Anyone even taking Meta’s/Google’s side here is absurd to me.

Man, why is everyone like this? Please read the documentation, the traffic is encrypted and metadata cannot identify you. Unless the NSA has an active hack for I2P lying around, NO-ONE IN THIS WORLD can find out what chunks of traffic just went flying by your internet connection