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by sneak 2272 days ago
This problem will probably go away anyway.

Hundreds of millions of people use Facebook Messenger for their everyday communications, which is not meaningfully encrypted at all other than by TLS. Similarly, Discord is also very popular, as is Skype. None of these offer privacy.

Most people have a very fatalistic view about their opportunities for privacy in their electronic communications.