What Snowden stories? You mean how Google's SREs were pissed[0] to find out what the NSA was doing? And that then Google started encrypting all their inter-da

What Snowden stories? You mean how Google's SREs were pissed[0] to find out what the NSA was doing? And that then Google started encrypting all their inter-datacenter traffic automatically[1]. As for a reddit discussion... that is such a poor indicator of use of a service. I don't see any statistics gathered there about usage by country. That is such a tiny sample set, it is basically useless. There are groups out there that gather SMS (and chat app) usage by country, but I think all those reports are paywalled. [0] https://www.theverge.com/2013/11/6/5072924/google-engineers-issue-fuck-you-to-nsa-over-surveillance-scandal https://www.theverge.com/2013/11/6/5072924/google-engineers-... [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-encrypts-data-amid-backlash-against-nsa-spying/2013/09/06/9acc3c20-1722-11e3-a2ec-b47e45e6f8ef_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-en...