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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    10 months ago

    Funnily enough their biggest expense (sending SMS during registration) is making the accounts less private.

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      10 months ago

      I imagine not paying for it and being overloaded with spam bots would be more expensive (otherwise they wouldn’t be doing it this way!)