Windy cityIs this the first time a major service has removed end-to-end encryption instead of adding it? Why Instagram?
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Urzl@pheonix They're done leaving money on the table. Surveiling your every waking moment and conversation is too lucrative for any commercial entity to resist.
The ID verification shit under cover of "save the children" is just more capitulation by the regulators to market demand for more and more granular surveillance data.
@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 ðŸ˜