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Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive (signal.org)

submitted 1 year ago by u_tamtam@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The cost of these registration services for verifying phone numbers when people first install Signal, or when they re-register on a new device, currently averages around $6 million dollars per year.

That's pretty crazy. Wonder which third party providers they are using. Maybe the identity verification methods we have today is due for some significant changes?

[–] u_tamtam@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

Without SMS verification, spam would be so much worse that they've been kind of obliged to keep it, even though it defeats/undoes most of the privacy features they like to advertise about