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3 months agoPrivate, for-profit, and let’s not forget antagonistic to the GDPR.
Private, for-profit, and let’s not forget antagonistic to the GDPR.
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I’m not creative enough to come up with a good reason TBH
Because the default message form is not encrypted. In order to switch to E2EE you basically shout to Facebook, “hey I’m going to start talking to this person right here, right now, and I don’t want you to know what I’m saying!”
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Facebook Messenger only uses it for specially marked chats AFAIK, and to initialize one you need to specifically request it. Nothing puts up a red flag like initializing one. Source (Facebook warning)
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How long until that sort of thing goes the way of Bibliogram/Barinsta?