Signal has started rolling out Signal Login, an optional registration method that allows users to create a Signal account without providing a phone number. The feature will be rolled out first on Android and will come to iOS later.
As we previously reported, Signal Login is not a free alternative registration method. Signal requires users who choose to register without a phone number to make a one-time payment. The price at launch is $2.99 / € 3.49, although this may vary by region and currency.
So for many years, people wanted to use Signal without a phone, a geotracking device, by just registering on Desktop.
But it’s impossie: it must be linked to a phone AND phone number.
After years and years of asking, people can now register with… a credit card?!?
This is a honeypot. Only a honeypot woukd behave this way and avoid things like Monero, desktop only registration, etc.
I am not sure how the honeypot works, but if it weren’t a honeypot they woukd be behaving differently.