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mvrckhckr 4 hours ago

The only reason I can think of for this change is governmental pressure. I don’t see how it benefits the platform itself (nor its users).

paxys 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There is a product reason - AI features are fundamentally incompatible with E2EE. If they want to bring more AI generated experiences and content into Instagram then the data needs to be accessible by them.

arlort 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I can think of a few reasons why a company built on profiling (and advertising to) user interests might be interested in the private conversations of their users

gzread 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I can think of some. Less code complexity to support a feature that didn't work properly and nobody was using? More ability to detect spam?