Signal’s president reveals the cost of running the privacy-preserving platform—not just to drum up donations, but to call out the for-profit surveillance business models it competes against.
  • JohnWorksEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Seeing how much they’re paying for telecom fees I wonder if after they switch to not needing a phone number if that’ll go down greatly.

    • souperk@reddthat.comEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I doubt number verification is going to change, they say they use it to filter out spam/bot accounts.

      We need a reliable way to tell humans from bots without using government records.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Right?

      Given those costs, you’d think they’d offer other ways to verify, like any other messaging platform, email, carrier pigeon, etc. They’re just sending a code - without knowing the rest of the user info, no one else can use it.