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Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive (signal.org)
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[–] kariunai@feddit.nl 22 points 2 years ago

"As of January 2022, the platform had approximately 40 million monthly active users."[0]

In 2022 they had $30M expenses, so the cost is somewhat under $1/user/year.

They said the minimum donation is there to reduce the viability of scammers using it to check if a stolen credit card number is valid.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Foundation