[mvrckhckr]

The only reason I can think of for this change is governmental pressure. I don’t see how it benefits the platform itself (nor its users).

[arlort]

I can think of a few reasons why a company built on profiling (and advertising to) user interests might be interested in the private conversations of their users

[mvrckhckr]

In that case, why introduce the feature in the first place?

[paxys]

There is a product reason - AI features are fundamentally incompatible with E2EE. If they want to bring more AI generated experiences and content into Instagram then the data needs to be accessible by them.

[mvrckhckr]

That's an interesting angle. I'm not sure I see the direct connection, but it can be a user choice.

[gzread]

I can think of some. Less code complexity to support a feature that didn't work properly and nobody was using? More ability to detect spam?

[mvrckhckr]

Wasn't it automatically used when it was implemented?