alt Hacker NewsWhen Meta starting introducing E2E messaging it was a huge push. I wonder why they're doing away with it.
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john_strinlai • today at 1:59 PM
i am guessing that they just dont really need to pretend to care anymore. e2e messaging was a big marketing push, not ever an ideological thing. i assume they no longer believe the marketing benefits outweigh the downsides.
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paxys • today at 7:14 PM
Because they realized they need the data for AI
gzread • today at 3:46 PM
PR. They wanted to seem like the good guys, but they get your messages through backdoors like the automatic backup.
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It was for plausible deniability because of regulatory scrutiny. Regulator's dead now, so now there's no downside and only upsides to spying on your users.