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charcircuit
4 months ago
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Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagra...
So what? The centralized owner owns the code repo too, so such a restriction doesn't stop anything.
Even if Instagram was open source, Meta could remove the E2E chat feature.
lrvick
4 months ago
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If it was open source people could fork.
charcircuit
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But a fork wouldn't be installed on billions of people's devices.
lrvick
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Any community that cares could then at least make the right choice of client for their community. The masses never care, but what matters is that privacy is actually a choice.
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Even if Instagram was open source, Meta could remove the E2E chat feature.