[vigilans]

This BS is why I completely stopped donating to the signal foundation.

The messages are mine, not theirs, and yet they refuse to allow me to handle them how I deem fit.

[palata]

> The messages are mine, not theirs, and yet they refuse to allow me to handle them how I deem fit.

"They refuse to allow me" meaning "they don't add the features I want for free to the app they provide for free, so I complain".

The messages are yours, of course. But don't forget that you use their work for free. If you're not happy, go use the free work of someone else, I guess?

[Y-bar]

They are somewhat correct though, Signal has written code explicitly to prevent iOS users from including Signal data in Apple’s encrypted local and/or cloud backups.

Allowing encrypted backups was free for Signal, but they spent time and money to prevent it for iOS users.

Part of the code the wrote to prevent backups in question:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/blob/5590f09c3643f12...

[teiferer]

Have you read the article? They are working on it.

[vigilans]

Thank you. I should have read to the end, and I'm glad they're planning to support backups stored on their users' media.

[rPlayer6554]

Where does it say that?

[kelnos]

Their first cut at "working on it" is to require that we pay Signal to store our backups for us (45 days of media and 100MiB total is not a useful free tier; I have more than 1 GiB of messages/media spanning years), when that's an entirely unnecessary restriction.