Hacker News Reader

Sure, but that is equally true for products like protonmail that use end-to-end encryption and for those that don't do any encryption at all.

View on HN

e2e encryption solves a totally different problem. If you don't trust the intended recipient of a message don't send it. e2e helps make sure nobody else receives the message.

Google is making an entirely different claim about controlling the actions of a third party. It's fundamentally impossible to do what Google is claiming.

What is Google claiming that you think is impossible?

That the recipient can't "forward, copy, download, or print" the message and that the message expiration will prevent the recipient from viewing the message.

From what you have pasted, it seems that they just claim to disable those options in their UI?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com