Is this the first time a major service has removed end-to-end encryption instead of adding it?

[davidnielsen@mastodon.social]

@neurologo @pheonix that is always a Meta preference, however I wouldn’t count out sucking up to Cheeto Hitler either.

WhatsApp is next, give it a few weeks.

[pheonix@hachyderm.io]

@gooba42 Hit the nail on the head regarding the underlying data economics.

Not to sound like a conspiracy person but with the current industry arms race for LLM training pipelines, keeping petabytes of chat history cryptographically opaque was probably deemed an unacceptable opportunity cost lol 😭

[alex@social.alexhyett.com]

@pheonix how is the government ever going to protect the children if it can’t read all of your messages easily.

[flesh@transfem.social]

@pheonix@hachyderm.io As a wise woman once said, "come on, you know why".

[sabrinaweb71@sociale.network]

@pheonix because Zuck