21 comments

  • treesknees 44 minutes ago

    It could be a move to have parity with TikTok, where they claim it’s for safety reasons. I’ve been seeing advertisements for Instagram touting their child/teen protection features. Seems like they’re really trying to beat the allegations that Instagram is bad for children’s health.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241817

    • dmix 35 minutes ago

      Protecting kids and Terrorism, always the reason why nobody is allowed to have privacy on the internet.

      • nunobrito 20 minutes ago

        Cars nowadays are packed with microphones and permanently connected to the internet on daily basis so that drivers can have remote assistance when the car breaks once every 5 years or so.

    • PunchyHamster 33 minutes ago

      More like excuse

    • varispeed 31 minutes ago

      How these protections are working when I get served literal porn every couple of shorts on Instagram?

  • garbawarb an hour ago

    When Meta starting introducing E2E messaging it was a huge push. I wonder why they're doing away with it.

    • gmerc 16 minutes ago

      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.

    • john_strinlai 44 minutes ago

      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.

      • varispeed 29 minutes ago

        Probably Whatsapp is next, if it isn't quietly already.

        • deafpolygon 26 minutes ago

          > Probably Whatsapp is next, if it isn't quietly already.

          And I will be pushing to remove WhatsApp if that’s the case.

  • dcliu 36 minutes ago

    On the other hand Messenger has moved to only supporting e2ee chats, wonder why the difference.

  • gausswho 40 minutes ago

    Is this legitimate? It's so incoherent to see this blurb at the top saying it's being retired while everything underneath is pitching the value of e2e.

  • emsign 36 minutes ago

    The USA is going full fascism. People keep laughing at it and only realize it when it's too late.

    • apopapo 30 minutes ago

      It's not only the united states of America. These tyrannical views have been brewing everywhere for years, and there was not enough public counter-narrative to these ideologies.

  • arunc 20 minutes ago

    Wait, people trust communication via Instagram thinking they are secure?

    • blitzar 18 minutes ago

      Facebook were at both ends, the encryption was between the ends.

  • zipping1549 44 minutes ago

    We all know what this means.

  • some_furry an hour ago

    I wonder if this is the start of a trend or just a one-off?

    • nunobrito 33 minutes ago

      TikTok replied recently it wouldn't encrypt its messages either, citing user security as reason.

  • villgax 32 minutes ago

    just waiting on whatsapp to rug pull as well & then bye bye privacy & meta from my life

    • dylan604 7 minutes ago

      Wouldn't bye bye meta be hello privacy into your life?