Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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☑️ Instagram just killed its encrypted DMs. But here's the real story: most people never had it turned on to begin with. If you care about keeping your conversations private, I'll share which apps I recommend.

☑️ Encryption, privacy, and choice
Instagram dropped end-to-end encryption from its DMs, but most people had never turned it on in the first place. It was opt-in, and hardly anyone opted in. If your messages matter to you, use an app like Signal, where encryption is on by default.

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Chapters
0:00 End-to-End Encryption Removed From Instagram
0:35 End-to-end encryption
2:05 Don’t assume your conversations are encrypted
3:25 Meta recommends WhatsApp
4:38 Does this really matter?
6:58 The catch

EFF: How to use WhatsApp - ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-whatsapp

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