Meta has announced that it is expanding testing of end-to-end encrypted messaging on Messenger and promises a launch by the end of 2023.
. The company added a slew of features supported through E2EE, including chat themes, custom chat emojis and reactions, group profile photos, link previews, active status, and bubbles on Android. All of these features have been available on Messenger for a while, but due to the complexity of encryption, they had been absent from conversations where E2EE was turned on.
In addition, the company says that it is on track to make E2EE the default setting for “one-to-one friends and family chats” onStarting today, millions more people’s chats on Messenger will be upgraded to stronger encryption standards as part of our ongoing end-to-end encryption testing. We remain on track to launch default E2EE for one-to-one friends and family chats on Messenger by the end of the year.
Meta has a lot going on right now. On the same day that it announced the expansion of E2EE testing, it also revealed that a
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