Briar is leading the field on privacy issues today, unlike Signal. There is no metadata leaking who you are sending messages to or from, just a connection to the Tor Network. This problem is still unsolved in Signal, with only partial protection of some messages looking to be added in the future, while mitigation tactics like running your own server are unsupported & discouraged by Open Whisper Systems.
The post about Giphy integration was a great piece of writing about an interesting technical challenge, and Signal's solution to the problem (a TLS proxy run by them, with a client that only accepts Giphy's TLS certificate, making queries quasi-anonymous) is not a bad way to go about solving things.
The post about Giphy integration was a great piece of writing about an interesting technical challenge, and Signal's solution to the problem (a TLS proxy run by them, with a client that only accepts Giphy's TLS certificate, making queries quasi-anonymous) is not a bad way to go about solving things.