Privacy-focused Signal Messaging Application has flying in the Dutch app saving in the past month, sitting many days as the best free app on iOS and Android to Entire Categories, per data of various application tracking platforms such as the sensor towerSee rankings-.
The app has undergoing a survey with its popularity for years, often react Changes in policy in competitors like whatsapp or Geopolitical eventsSee rankings-. That’s because the signal has made the name for themselves as a friendly choice – Operated by the Foundation of Failed (none based on the US) than the personal business known as monetizi data. In addition, the minimum minimum scribuing signal is minimum.
In 2025, with new US President led from large embrace technology, not unusual digital privacy tool has a moment – especially in Europe, who has attract the President IreSee rankings-.
But what you can see at this time is the case of signals in one specific local – Dutch.
In an Interviewed with Dutch de Telegraf’s Dutch Meredith Whittaker Reviewed that the number of “the new registration” in the Netherlands is higher in this year with the right time factor for this data.
When asked that the Dutch looks like that, Whitty pointed the combination of combination, and disbelieve in large technology, and the political realm of reality may know how the vulnerable communication might be, “said Whittaker.
Data provided to TechCrunch from app intelligence app Appfigure Increases the Dutch Chart signal. Each data says that the signal is an iPhone 365 application on January 1stream in the Netherlands and does not show all in the top application list. Then, it started about 5 January, began to climb the Dutch, and on February 2 was a top spot.
The signal has been dipped and out of the Intervention Week, throwing a half-in February in the market, the appfigure evaluated 22,000 in December (2024). This increased to be 99,000 in January, and then 233,000 to February – 958% increases since December.
While it may be some of these growings can be provided for signals to have saturation of the downloads compared to other markets, the position that is used in the same response market can be found.
“No other market close to the Dutch in the growth between December between December and February,” Appfigures to tell techcrroch.
For comparison, the closest is Belgium, who has seen the download growth for more than 250% since December; Sweden grow 153%; and Denmark that grows with 95%.
So why the signs can experience what the redtitors are called “It’s time to adoption adoption“In the Netherlands, specifically?
Clear signal
Rejo zergerSenior policy counselor on digital rights foundation Bit freedomsaid that when it was difficult to compose one particular reason, he said she was not surprised.
The last development in the US has seen The big platform provider in line At the end of the new Trump rezime, and this has made the public debate and significant media. European Equipment About Technology that includes great personal personalized companies in that debate.
“The Dutch, like someone else, depending on the infrastructure provided by the technology company is extremely rare, usually from the US,” said zenger against TechCrunch. “This means, and the risks of this, have been shown in the past few weeks. As a common debate in the Netherlands has been quite clear.Instances of instances to be used‘I feel like now, we have a higher level debate:’We have to get rid of this dependency. ‘””
In the context, the public may be cudnin dominate the abuse of data. With a company like meta regularly investigated and fined Through the data privacy practice, the signal may appear less evil: Based on the US, but operated by Non-profit that promises not only the message content, But metadata aroundSee rankings-.
Vincent BöhreDirector in Dutch privacy organization First policyIt also pointed media driven in media and a wider media in common opinions.
“What starts the trump selected in the US month, there are many trumpet and (Elon) from the United States in the Netherlands – and can now support the Trump,” Böhre said at TechCrunch. “Article Critation X (used to Twitter) and Meta has appeared in the Dutch media everywhere, even people who never know about the Dutch’s general opinion, now the people who have intense ‘, special signals.”
Signal of intentions
In the Netherlands only 18 million people in Europeans more than 700 million, increases in the market can only be seen for sentiment, while there is still government.
Apple, for example, recently pulled the last encrypted From the ICloud in Britain to fight the government’s effort to install backdoor.
Talk at HISA 25 In Taiwan this week, Whittaker emphasizes the penalized position In the past: Signal will not compromise in privacy.
“The following signal position is very clear – we will not walk, note, or other for the privacy and security that they do,” Whittaker saidSee rankings-. “What a perturbation or backdoor is called Scanning side client, or stripping the privacy encryption of one or another feature similar to what Apple does”
Its own, at Interviewed with SVT public broadcaster SVT, Whittaker said it would not be able to understand Swedish laws that require a serpent of messaging provisions to save the message.
“In practice, this means asking to be able to remove encryption is our basic business,” she said whittaker. “Ask us to save your data to destroy all the architecture and we will never do it. We prefer to leave the Swedish market done.”
Technish reached for its recommendation for commenting, but it has not heard it when I turned on the publication.
