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> "We don't want to disrupt people's current experience." You don't say? (not you, Facebook) How about the dozens of times Facebook disrupted the user experien
by mtgx 10y ago
> "We don't want to disrupt people's current experience."
You don't say? (not you, Facebook) How about the dozens of times Facebook disrupted the user experience of the service for its own benefit? How about the dozen+ times it changed people's settings from private to public, after people previously manually enabled a certain setting to be private, or after having a setting by default as private initially and letting people believe that such action is private? Wasn't THAT disrupting to users' experience?
Of course it was. But it benefited Facebook, and that's the difference here. They just don't want to "disrupt" the experience in a way that also hurts the company's bottom line, even if it's better for users.
In other words, it's just a weak excuse for not doing it by default, or at least allowing people to always set it as default (although knowing Facebook, I'd probably worry that they'd revert it back to non-E2E without even making it obvious that it did that. Announcing a new privacy policy change doesn't really count).