[gnochi2001]

Because in the current data-snowflake regulatory and legislative climate, it’s too tough to get away with monetising content sent in a ‘private’ context. Googles business model relies on being able to index and advertise to every phrase you post, but I’m sure they don’t want to run into the same issues fb has, because fb posts have an expectation of privacy. Hence google has no interest in providing a private messaging platform.

[Crosseye_Jack]

And yet they provide a private messaging platform on their mobile OS and online. Chat will be replacing hangouts, it’s where the devs from Allo went to and supports things like RCS.