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by pmontra 1599 days ago
It could be as little as "everybody does it, let's do it too" or they actually thought about it. By signaling to contacts that somebody installed Signal they make it more likely that those contacts use Signal to communicate instead of any other system. It helps the growth of Signal.

Adobe and PornHub don't have the contacts list. Google likely does but maybe they are restrained by privacy laws.