▲ 316 ▼ Signal Will Let You Sign Up Without a Phone Number — For $3 (itsfoss.com) submitted 1 week ago by Crumpled6273@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world 110 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 child) Bot protection permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org 1 point 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) Lmao, it can be achieved in better ways; they can just use a ZKP FLOSS captcha (such as Anubis, but adapted for native apps, there are some), or manual verification (such as most XMPP or Matrix instances, and even more general online services providers such as Disroot [this one uses Anubis AND manual email verification for the signup process, then only Anubis]). They're shady asf, and now are being exclusionary towards these who can't pay? Hell naw, fuck 'em permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org 1 point 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) Lmao, it can be achieved in better ways; they can just use a ZKP FLOSS captcha (such as Anubis, but adapted for native apps, there are some), or manual verification (such as most XMPP or Matrix instances, and even more general online services providers such as Disroot [this one uses Anubis AND manual email verification for the signup process, then only Anubis]). They're shady asf, and now are being exclusionary towards these who can't pay? Hell naw, fuck 'em permalink fedilink source parent