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E2EE in WhatsApp is here because Meta does not care about the content of your messages. Analyzing natural language is hard anyway, whereas determining who you are, what you aspire to, and how to trick you into thinking your life won't be whole until you buy $PRODUCT is scandalously easy given your (weighted) relational graph.

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That doesn't make sense . If they didn't care about the content of your message why would they ask signal to help them add ee2e in the first place . they could have left it on tls like it used to be.

What I meant what "who you talk to and how often you do" is as valuable as "what you say".

> If they didn't care about the content of your message

I'm not saying they don't care, just that e2ee in a centralised platform whose business is data collecting does not accomplish as much as one can think.

> why would they ask signal to help them add ee2e in the first place.

"Marketing" is why.

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