What price privacy? End-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging app Signal has put out an interesting overview of the costs required to develop and maintain its End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal has put out an interesting overview of the costs required to develop and maintain its pro-privacy systems.
  • milkytoast@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    does anyone know roughly how much operating costs could be per person? I’d like to donate, but I don’t have a whole lot of money. I’d like to at least ensure that I’m covering “my share” so to speak

    • Vincent@kbin.social
      10·
      1 year ago

      Signal had 40 million active users in 2021. With 14 million in infra cost, that comes to .35 per user/year. Total expenses are about 33 million, so about .825 per user/year. All in all that seems very reasonable.

      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38291950

      So it should be pretty easy to cover your own costs and maybe that of a couple of friends to make the transaction fees worth it :)

      • milkytoast@kbin.social
        4·
        1 year ago

        so $1 a year would cover it? might as well covery whole family at that point. think I can afford $5 a year lol

        • Vincent@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          Haha exactly, by that calculation $1 a year would cover you and two others. Get that family onboard :)

        • catacomb@beehaw.orgEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Funny, that’s in line with the $1 a year WhatsApp was going to charge.

          Sounds like just $5 will pay for me and 4 others, so that’s nice.