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It seems the replies are mostly criticism, which I understand, but look at it this way: there's yet another way to install Signal, one that's well supported within Microsoft's ecosystem.

Updating through infrastructure that's as trusted as your OS is a good thing. Look at what happened with notepadnotepad++:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZAKvsIfxrs

The Notepad++ Situation Is Crazy

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Notepad++ didn't check the integrity of the update package, that was a security-101-first-lesson problem, solved without needing to introduce an appstore

But disregarding if that threat vector is a problem for Signal or not, if people don't trust the Microslop Store, they shouldn't be using Windows anyway! It's not like they'll have exposure to _more_ threat actors, just more threat vectors for the same one

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@WastedRadiance
Thanks, I already thought about writing something similar... a lot of harsh reactions for a good news!

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