Instagram drops end-to-end encrypted chats: What it means | Proton

#Instagram #e2ee #privacy #deleteinstagram #pixelfed

https://proton.me/blog/instagram-end-to-end-encryption

Instagram drops end-to-end encrypted chats: What it means | Proton

Instagram will drop end-to-end encrypted chats on May 8, 2026, reversing years of Meta’s push for stronger privacy. Here's what it means.

Proton

In reasons to #BringBackGuillotines

> Meta’s Federal Tax Rate Hits an All-Time Low Due to Breaks Expanded by Trump Tax Law https://itep.org/meta-tax-breaks-trump-mark-zuckerberg/

#DeleteFacebook #DeleteInstagram #DeleteMeta #deadbeat #RealOwners #tech #GovDocs

Meta’s Federal Tax Rate Hits an All-Time Low Due to Breaks Expanded by Trump Tax Law

The company paid an effective federal income tax rate of just over 3.5% in 2025, the lowest it has recorded since the company went public as Facebook in 2012.

ITEP

Hey, here’s a thought. Get off these garbage, for-profit centralized platforms!

What’s it going to take?

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-is-blocking-links-to-ice-list-on-facebook-instagram-and-threads/

#DeleteMeta #DeleteFacebook #DeleteInstagram

Meta Is Blocking Links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads

Users of Meta’s social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.

WIRED

This is something I need to do for my (minor but obvious) social media addiction.

The positive outcome of spending less time on social media? Having more time to do other, more interesting things.

There are only so many hours in a day and only so many days in our lives. When I think of how much time I wasted on Twitter and Facebook back when my addiction was very bad, I want to cry.

#DeleteFacebook #DeleteX #DeleteInstagram #DeleteTikTok https://infosec.exchange/@thejikz/115826301489433767

thejikz (@[email protected])

Addiction Mitigation Strategy: In your own head or on paper (which usually is best, even if you burn it), define the positive outcome you would like from not doing that thing. For me, it helps to work toward something, not away from something. Running away makes me do dumber things. #addiction #recovery

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🗑️ Finally deleted #instagram yesterday after going through the unnecessarily (and surely intentionally) slow "export your data" process several times because I kept missing the 4-day window that the download link was made available.

That's 2 down, 1 to go before the end of 2025.

#deleteinstagram #DeleteMeta #deleteBigTech

People on here who complain about the politics on Substack — are you still on Facebook or another Meta platform? If so, check your hypocrisy.

Really, everyone needs to get off those platforms. Now. They only have power over us because we’re willing to give it to them, and unwilling to deal with the inconvenience of finding alternatives.

#DeleteFacebook #DeleteWhatsApp #DeleteInstagram

Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/11/meta-shuts-down-global-accounts-linked-to-abortion-advice-and-queer-content?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content

More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings

The Guardian
Meta blokkeert tientallen queer- en abortus-accounts, zonder uitleg

De Amsterdamse organisatie The Queer Agenda is ineens 11.000 volgers verloren. "Je bent ineens je werk en de toegang tot je community kwijt."

It’s almost like people should just give up on Meta instead of whining. #DeleteFacebook #DeleteMeta #DeleteInstagram https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/115691127406205372
Joseph Cox (@[email protected])

“I hate it,” VanderMeer said in an email. “If I post content, I want to be the one contextualizing it, not some third party. It's especially bad because they're using the most click-bait style of headline generation, which is antithetical to how I try to be on social” https://www.404media.co/instagram-is-generating-inaccurate-seo-bait-for-your-posts/

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Why I Deleted My Instagram Account – Crystal Touchton (CuppaRex)