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Unlike the proprietary stuff there isn't a strong built incentive to remove it.

• charcircuit 6mo ago
  One incentive is that it makes for a simpler user experience.
  • Craighead 6mo ago
    It's absurd that you're actually taking the position you are
    • charcircuit 5mo ago
      The existence of security vs convenience trade offs is not absurd. Security isn't free to add to a product.
    • traderj0e 5mo ago
      e2ee in Instagram would be absurd
  • aeonik 5mo ago
    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.
    • charcircuit 5mo ago
      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.