Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees

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It’s sad that the EU doesn’t get how bad of an idea this is for Signal to just fully nope out of the European market.
Signal will also leave the EU market before they will give their iOS Version a backup-option (something the Android version has since years). I carry a 52 GB data blob with me that takes 15 hours to transfer from old-to-new-phone and that I could lose anytime my phone gets lost. Just because Signal does not think iOS user should be able to save their data.
- I marvel a bit at the 52 GB blob. Don't you think you could maybe trim back to the past x thousand messages in your chats? Or delete some media?
  
  I think tge decision is not because they want to hurt iOS users but because the iOS file system is extremely handicapped and the iOS cloud backup is not e2e-encrypted.