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Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive (signal.org)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago*

Downside is minor bugs re inviting friends:

Gets confused by invites from Facebook (can't automatically strip the trailing tracking code from the URL).

Fails scan of QR invite with your maybe camera app. Must scan from app.

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