Nowadays, a majority of apps require you to sign up with your email or even worse your phone number. If you have a phone number attached to your name, meaning you went to a cell service/phone provider, and you gave them your ID, then no matter what app you use, no matter how private it says it is, it is not private. There is NO exception to this. Your identity is instantly tied to that account.
Signal is not private. I recommend Simplex or another peer to peer onion messaging app. They don’t require email or phone number. So as long as you protect your IP you are anonymous
So Signal doesn’t provide anonymity. Is that all you’re saying?
Yes… and if it needs to be said, I am also directly implying that anonymity is a large and crucial part of privacy.
It needs to be said. Because anonymity is only one part of privacy.
Security is another part - in messaging, this means that the message cannot be spied on in transit, and cannot be altered in transit.
Authenticity is another part - you need to know that the message came from who it claims to have come from, and not elsewhere.
Signal does not provide anonymity, basically. But it guarantees security and authenticity beyond doubt. And this is useful - you can exchange secure information with people using Signal, knowing that it’s not being spied on or altered, knowing that only the person you intend to see the data can see it, and knowing that they know that you sent it.
But yeah, if you want to send messages anonymously, other services are necessary.