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Proton Meet or
Signal Foundation or
WireGuard (Jason A. Donenfeld) / community tooling
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$7.99/mo standalone, or bundled into Proton Workspace plans (free tier
available: up to 50 participants, meetings under 1 hour, no account needed for
4-person instant calls) (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) ·
Software is free and open source (GPLv2); your only cost is a VPS -- roughly
USD 4-6 / month on a provider like [[Digital Ocean]], or a spare box you already run. (1)
source license:
description:
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) ·
End-to-end encrypted video meetings from Proton, built on the open
MLS (Messaging Layer Security) protocol. Swiss-based and subscription-funded,
positioned as a privacy-respecting drop-in replacement for Zoom. (1)
usage notes:
rejected alternatives:
None (1) ·
Commercial Israeli-owned VPNs (Kape's ExpressVPN / CyberGhost / PIA /
ZenMate, Hola, Hotspot Shield) reintroduce exactly the operator you're trying to remove -- 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)
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