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Riot only ever talks to identity servers (which simply maintain a directory of matrix users by phone number or email address) if you actually try to look up a user by one of those identifiers, and if you actually opt in to it. We used to do it without opt-in when you searched, but this was fixed at https://matrix.org/blog/2019/09/27/privacy-improvements-in-s... . For Push, whatever app you use needs to have a push se…
It does not appear that your statement is accurate. I just fired up Riot 1.6.2, the latest available from the site. It makes three connections, one each to matrix.org, vector.im, and riot.im on startup. Even after removing application settings and preferences, it connects to all three of those on startup, just sitting at the login screen, not signed in to anything. I didn't opt in, and I didn't look anything up; it w…
Re: Looking back at how Signal works
#301Okay - thanks for refiling and spelling it out; it's a legit thinko which we're fixing.