Using any meta’s service is privacy nightmare.
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2026
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im guessing messenger and potentially whatsapp are next
Of course. Can't train the LLM if they can't read them.
I always laugh when I hear about meta's end to end encryption because it isn't remotely true in the sense that people would care about from a privacy standpoint. I know it is the case for messenger, I have not confirmed for other meta services, but in messenger the messages are encrypted in the way you would expect with the one big caveat being that meta stores your private keys on their servers. Iiirc meta explained that it is still e2e because they don't unencrypt it which I find hilarious.
bro, I swear I won't read it bro, you can trust me bro - yo
shocking
The shocking thing was that they implemented it in the first place.
You cannot convince me that it was true end to end encryption. They had an eye in every chat.
well, they can have true E2EE and still be able to read or exfiltrate the messages, because they control both ends...
I wouldn't try to LOL
But there is valid reasoning for it. The metadata is equally as valuable as the actual content. That's why WhatsApp is so profitable. If more people are using it then it could be seen as worth the tradeoff.
I think Facebook's "end to end encryption" just means it was encrypted when it got their servers and then encrypted again when it got to the end user.
a surprising move
Was it, though?
How could they target ads if they can’t read all your private chats?
i'm getting to the point where if someone i don't know that well starts talking to me about some bullshit on instagram, i immediately judge them
edit: it's the same for FB tiktok twitter-- any of those bullshits. i don't fucking care what you saw on fucking facebook, and since you brought it up, moving forward, i care less about anything you say than i would have before