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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The difference is that there’s enough unused capacity on your personal device to handle all the traffic any typical user needs to handle in a day many times over, for simple messaging. Likely, that load is so little it won’t even affect your battery life.
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Wouldn’t you still need a server in between to temporarily store the messages if the other person isn’t available?
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Wouldn’t that mean both have to have a connection at the same time? What if one is offline?
