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Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive (signal.org)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I assume that is exactly for one of the reasons they mentioned in the article: increasing costs for sms

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  • [+] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] -5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's what they told me when gave then feedback through their website.

    There's no free lunch and corporations aren't the most trustworthy source of information though so maybe it was about cost.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    isnt signal a nonprofit? not a corporation

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Some nonprofit organizations are corporations and have pretty shitty practices:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_Wish_Network

    The Morman church is another US 'non-profit organization' yet somehow hordes billions.

    Trusting blindly without doing research because something is presented as a non-profit is a good way to be taken for a fool and separated from your money.

    When signal made their own cryptocurrency which they entirely premined was a huge red flag. Dropping SMS support was an annoyance that broke the camels back.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah I think you are right. I too was really mad at Signal for ditching sms, and THEN having the audacity to ask for donations! This article shines a light on the reasons, wow.

    Still, I would only donate if they kept sms in there. Not without sms because now it's just one more isolated platform and no longer a one-stop solution at it used to be.

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