The head of the Signal app has criticized plans in the EU to allow messengers to have backdoors to enable automatic searches for criminal content. Signal is considered one of the most secure messengers.
Probably a mixture of both of the above, GeoIP blocking (like imgur do) + the inability to sign up for new accounts using a EU based phone number which you still need as far as I know…
so VPNs and overseas mobile providers is the way forward I guess.
What would that mean exactly? Not allowed in the Play Store/App store in Europe? Blocking IP addresses from EU?
Probably a mixture of both of the above, GeoIP blocking (like imgur do) + the inability to sign up for new accounts using a EU based phone number which you still need as far as I know…
so VPNs and overseas mobile providers is the way forward I guess.