Discord finally rolls out end-to-end encryption by default for all voice and video calls

I’m not sure that this is surprising or anything like that. This feature was a thing before the recent wave of age verification, and something that even third party Discord clients could make use of. Now (according to the article) they’re just making it mandatory instead of tolerating outdated clients. I’ve always hypothesized that companies with goals contrary to privacy could still benefit from implementing E2EE on their platforms. Upon receiving a subpoena, the administrative burden is simply to say you don’t have access to the conversations, which is true. And as is often the case, the metadata of who you’re speaking with is more valuable than the exact contents of your conversations robots.txt: > What if this is meant more to businesses to use rather than everyday consumers? The wonderful thing is that everyone benefits from it, and it is worth rooting for as it hugely normalizes encryption. Discord’s userbase is huge; a huge amount are normies who think encryption is only used by big evil criminals