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  "path": "/t/do-encrypted-services-actually-offer-a-meaningful-privacy-boost/37730#post_4",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-08T14:37:26.000Z",
  "site": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net",
  "textContent": "E2EE services provide protection from the service provider itself, even if they aren’t malicious they might have rogue employees that try to access user data. They might be compelled by law enforcement to hand over whatever data they have, so E2EE protects you in that case as well. It’s also very common for companies to use third-party companies to store your data, so you have to be able to trust them as well. Even if you don’t care about any of that, there’s still data breaches that happen all the time where users’ sensitive data is leaked.\n\nE2EE covers a lot of threats but it’s definitely not a catch all solution. The thing you described about it feeling impossible to protect against everything is exactly why threat modeling is so important: you need to define what threats you’re worried about so you don’t get bogged down with things that don’t help you achieve those goals.\n\nIf you feel like you achieve what you want with free services, then that’s perfectly fine. What you want to defend against is up to you. But E2EE services have demonstrated real value in protecting against certain threats.\n\nAlso I will point out that “free” and “encrypted” is a false dichotomy: there’s plenty of free E2EE services.",
  "title": "Do encrypted services actually offer a meaningful privacy boost?"
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