You can donate to Signal in many ways. Donating in-app gets you a badge. What are users compromising if they do this?

Google has you card details and knows you payed that amount to Signal. I wanted to start backup subscription, more as a support than actual need, but I don’t like that fact (even though I have separate virtual card for online payments). And I doubt they’ll offer alternative methods anytime soon

Even if I’m not logged into a google account?

You can’t add payment method to google play without account

It should be noted that Signal accepts Google pay, Paypal and “plain” credit/debit cards as payment methods when donating through the app. So google does not need to know that you’ve donated to Signal.

Oh, yes, that’s for donation. I was referring to paid backups

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M-A9NPV October 9, 2025, 12:22pm 7

Thanks. This is what I wanted to confirm.

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