There still isn't a popular messaging and voice call platform that supports private end-to-end encryption by default. How terrible is this? I mean it would be so trivial to establish a secure and private communications standard. Europe and North America has a population of almost a billion people combined. If 500 millions of those live in first-world conditions and only 1% cares about privacy, with $1/year worth of giving a fuck we could have a budget of $5M/year, or close to 50 top notch developers to pull this off. Obviously a lot more could be spend, but even with this minuscule spending we could still have a viable, standardized alternative to Facebook and Google.

We literally had better privacy when we had analog phone lines that anyone could tap into. That's just terrible.