What is the reason for saving the end-to-end encrypted backup files on Signal backup servers instead of iCloud or Google backup service, as most of us are already paying for this storage?

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bsimpson 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

The "Signal should exist" part of me is happy to donate $2/mo to help them keep the lights on, but I really did expect that to be an option alongside Drive/Dropbox/et al, not the only option.

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drnick1 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Besides the obvious (they want/need the revenue from selling their own solution), many people using Signal do so in an effort to move away from Big Tech and/or on devices with custom ROMs.

	▲	ngrilly 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, but Signal mission is also to popularize E2E secure communication for normal users, whi usually don’t use a custom ROM.

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Dunedan 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

FYI: "Signal backup servers" currently seems to mean either Google Cloud Storage or CloudFlare R2 according to https://github.com/signalapp/storage-manager/blob/e45aaf5bd1...