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Free tier hosts up to 50 participants for 1 hour per call; guests join by link with no
account. Paid Meet Professional raises this to 100 participants and 24-hour calls with recording;
higher Workspace tiers reach 250. Often bundled with the rest of the Proton suite. (1) ·
Free, no ads, no paid tiers. Run by the Signal Foundation, a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit
funded by grants and donations; by charter it cannot be acquired. (1) ·
Genuinely free tier (unlimited data, no ads, one device, 5 countries). Paid plans add
more countries, up to 10 devices, and streaming/P2P; often bundled with Proton Mail/Drive/Pass. (1) ·
Platform fee 8-12% of earnings by tier (Lite/Pro/Premium), plus roughly 2.9-5%
payment processing; fee structure was revised in a September 2024 policy overhaul (1)
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None (1) ·
End-to-end encrypted 1:1 and group messaging, plus voice/video calls, built on
the audited Signal Protocol (Double Ratchet + X3DH). ~40M monthly users. Registration
requires a phone number; usernames (added 2024) let you start chats without sharing it. (1) ·
Subscription-based membership platform for ongoing monthly support -- better
suited to sustained operational funding than one-off campaigns. No nonprofit registration or
business entity is required to sign up; the org registers and operates like an individual
creator account. (1) ·
WireGuard/OpenVPN provider from Geneva, operated by Proton AG and majority-owned by
the non-profit Proton Foundation. Founded by scientists who met at CERN; same organisation as
Proton Mail. Every client app (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS) is open source. (1)
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rejected alternatives:
None (1) ·
Kape's ExpressVPN / CyberGhost / PIA / ZenMate, Hola VPN, and Hotspot
Shield / Betternet are rejected on ownership grounds -- see [[:Category:VPN]]. (1) ·
WhatsApp (uses the Signal protocol but is Meta-owned and harvests
metadata) and Telegram (chats are not end-to-end encrypted by default, weaker crypto). (1) ·
Zoom and Google Meet are closed-source and not end-to-end encrypted by
default, with the provider able to access call data. For a fully self-hosted option, Jitsi Meet
on your own server keeps infrastructure in your hands (see [[:Category:Self Hosting]]). (1)
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