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

[csgraves@turtleisland.social]

@pheonix why? Because Meta is an evil company and wants all of your data and personal information. Don’t use it.

[alerymin@shelter.moe]

@shadowwwind @pheonix oh, I already stopped insta back then

[ox1de@cyberplace.social]

@pheonix they need to keep an eye on you and who you're talking to

[janeraticiano@mstdn.animexx.de]

@pheonix the answer seems pretty obvious.

[neurologo@bcn.fedi.cat]

@pheonix @pheonix @DavidNielsen To better spy on you, I’d venture.

[lockedintospace@mastodon.social]

@pheonix I wonder if it applies to WhatsApp as well... If I'm not wrong, both Instagram and WhatsApp are owned by Meta...

[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