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Why would it be any easier to encrypt? It's data just the same.

I wouldn't rely on terrible quality video for plausible deniability but if you want to there are of course many ways to make your webcam feed shitty looking.

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Easier in the sense of less data, which would make it faster. One of the issues with encrypted video chat is that most implementations have a max amount of people you can chat with because of the computing overhead.

If your goal was less data through degraded quality though, you've got much better options than a text stream.

It's only less data because the resolution is low. You'd get exactly the same result with "normal" video chat by reducing the resolution.

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