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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because it's a significant inconvenience to disable those notifications over the very unlikely possibility that some bad actor will hoover that data up, much less do something nefarious with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, fair enough.

I realize now that I misunderstood the objection, I thought you were saying that using signal was an unreasonable level of paranoia, but I can totally see why turning off notifications seems that way.