Skype was P2P pre-acquisition. Microsoft’s acquisition changed Skype to centralize it through their servers (and introduce all sorts of call quality issues).

Skype was P2P pre-acquisition. Microsoft’s acquisition changed Skype to centralize it through their servers (and introduce all sorts of call quality issues). It’s less about focusing on tinfoil and more about how creating $ for cloud usage allowed for centralization and surveillance. Skype has been enough of a turn off from the performance issues it has / had hat many people moved elsewhere.