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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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[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Privacy and anonymity are not the same thing.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago

Anonymity is a form of privacy. While for most people it's not necessary to be anonymous to have privacy, it's essential in some cases, like whistleblowers or people living under dictatorships (or even in some democracies where governments keeps trying to get their paws on all metadata).