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Yeah, burned it in lieu of Signal immediately. Was shocked how many bright well-read people I know didn't care enough to switch after I presented them with the news.

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Most people don't care. In all fairness my beef with Facebook is their inability to manage user data in addition to their empire of community driven misinformation empire. With some slightly above average googling skills you can find a ton of my personal data. It's more of a principle thing here. But I agree, signal ftw.

> community driven misinformation empire.

What do you mean by this?

It's a bottomless pit of misinformation, fake news and conspiracy theories.

Signal did not exist when Facebook acquired WhatsApp though, did it?

TextSecure (text) and Redphone (voice) were the precursors to Signal in 2011 through to 2014. The Whatsapp purchase by facebook happened in 2014.

But the first official release of Signal was June 2014 (which was just the merger of Redphone and textsecure)

*All from Wikipedia correlations and faulty memory :D

I had meant I switched when the news of the new access to data request started last year.

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