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> Signal where they touted the benefits of fully opting into the Google ecosystem - the gist was that Google has expended all of this effort on security and they wanted to take advantage of it to bring security to the masses

What exactly do they rely on google for? They use them for their push notifications and they use some google servers on the back end.

They do offer the app on the app store as 99% of android users get their apps that way, but signal also offers app downloads from the signal website if the user doesn't want to use play store.

[mindslight]

I wish I could find the original source. It was an early post by Moxie about how embracing the Google ecosystem would give security to the masses of users, rather than worrying about the technical crowd that wants to be free of Google.