• trolololol@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    That requires paying Google maps for their services. I don’t know how their running costs and budget work.

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      3 hours ago

      Signal have tons of money from selling proprietary licenses of the Signal code base to Meta (used by WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger), Google, and Microsoft.

      All these partnerships were announced on Signal’s own blog, in case you don’t believe it.