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		k_bx on Nov 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive Sorry, how does 1 mb per user seem reasonable? I’m sending tons of videos, documents and pictures, probably beyond a gigabyte daily. Just one video is like 40Mb. 1Mb assumption seems absurd

tobinfricke on Nov 16, 2023 [–]

It's not stored on the server, except perhaps transiently.

k_bx on Nov 17, 2023 | [–]

If I open an old chat, and press "play" on old video, and it's downloading before being played, where is it download from? Same for downloading a file.

tobinfricke on Nov 28, 2023 | | [–]

Hmm ... Good question.

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