I remember a time when visiting a website that opens a javacript dialog box asking for your name so the message “hi <name entered>” could be displayed was baulked at.
Why does signal want a phone number to register? Is there a better alternative?
I remember a time when visiting a website that opens a javacript dialog box asking for your name so the message “hi <name entered>” could be displayed was baulked at.
Why does signal want a phone number to register? Is there a better alternative?
Isn’t the QR Code a link you could also open in a web browser?
No it isn’t a URL. But that would indeed be the way they could make it work. If that did that, then…
If you don’t have the app installed it installs it from the web site. If you have it installed then the app takes over instead of the web browser. That is how many apps work (eg Reddit).