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salinger3@diaspora-fr.org
Salinger 3

#signal #privacy #cost #benefit

Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive

Our nonprofit structure doesn’t mean it costs less for Signal to produce a globally distributed communications app. Signal is a nonprofit, but we’re playing in a lane dominated by multi-billion-dollar corporations that have defined the norms and established the tech ecosystem, and whose business models directly contravene our privacy mission.

So in order to provide a genuinely useful alternative, Signal spends tens of millions of dollars every year. 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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We hope that this cursory tour of some of Signal’s operations and costs helps provide a greater understanding of Signal’s unique place in the tech ecosystem, and of the tech ecosystem itself.

Our goal of developing an open source private messenger that is supported and sustained by small donations is both highly ambitious and, we believe, existentially important.

Thank you for your support. It’s an honor and privilege to work on Signal every day, and we—very literally—couldn’t do it without you. Please consider donating to Signal via our website or learn how to give using the app.

https://signal.org/donate/
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360031949872#how

https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

Donate to Signal Private Messenger

Your donation helps pay for the development, servers, and bandwidth of an app used by millions around the world for private and instantaneous communication. Please make a donation today.

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thefifthseason@venera.social
TheFifthSeason

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The three main moneymakers for FIFA come from broadcasting, ticket sales and marketing revenue, which all go to organization. It also allocates funding for the host countries to cover the tournament’s overall operations. For 2022, FIFA shelled out roughly $1.7 billion to Qatar, including the $440 million in total prize money for teams. The 2022 World Cup in Qatar is expected to bring in $4.7 billion in revenue.

Host countries rely on the economic impact derived from the tournament to generate revenue, and there are short-term and long-term economic impacts. A surge in tourism, hotel stays, job creation, and above-average spending at local restaurants and businesses are examples of short-term economic indicators.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/10/why-hosting-the-world-cup-can-be-a-bad-idea-for-some-countries.html- - - - - -

A ridiculous amount of money spent on what is essentially media attention for a little while. What are they going to do with all that structure after the tournament is done?

#WorldCup #Qatar #Cost #Finance

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anonymiss@despora.de
anonymiss

The Hidden #Fees Making Your Bananas, and Everything Else, #Cost More

source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/the-hidden-fees-making-your-bananas-and-everything-else-cost-more/ar-AAYxrNt

#Hapag had made it “extremely difficult” to return empty #containers, the trucking company said, and it was often left holding them for a month, all while Hapag continued to charge the firm $400 a day for each container that wasn’t returned on time. One trucking company that the importer contacted said it almost had to shut down temporarily because all the chassis — the steel frames with wheels that attach to trucks — that it needed to pull new loads from the ports were sitting under 70 empty containers that Hapag refused to take back.

#inflation #profit #capitalism #economy #trade #problem #news #truck #transport #container

The Hidden Fees Making Your Bananas, and Everything Else, Cost More

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