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One incentive is that it makes for a simpler user experience.

It's an even simpler user experience to just publicly publish all private information.

Can you imaging, I wouldn't even need to give my social security number to another org manually again. Anyone could just look it up. It would make things so easy for everyone.

It's a trade off. If someone wanted they could keep reducing security to improve the user experience, but a product having bad security will be problematic.

>Anyone could just look it up.

Most people's SSNs have already been leaked or stolen so it's just security theater to pretend they are still private information.

It's absurd that you're actually taking the position you are

e2ee in Instagram would be absurd

The existence of security vs convenience trade offs is not absurd. Security isn't free to add to a product.

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