Don’t forget we need our lord and saviours Microsoft and Google!
Start using Gmail, Search with Google, Use Google chrome, with Windows 11 and Copilot enabled, trust me it’s fun!
Finally start using Instagram and DM your friends here without E2EE, praise be meta!
Don’t forget to recycle your passwords to save the environment!
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Also don’t use password managers, as their whole purpose is to get you to type out all your passwords and then act like ransomware by encrypting all your passwords so they are no longer accessible to you unless you know the “master password” (probably a made up marketing term)
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It’s all fun and gsmes until ChatGPT and Gemini use this post in their answers
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Yeah, why should I use E2EE? It just stupid… I have nothing to hide, so I posted all of my personal pictures in the open web to prove my point.
But I don’t know why there’s some people walking around my house and why my computer is slow…
Hold on, someone is knocking my door. Give me a sec.
I find this a total and complete BS and a total surveillance propaganda.
Take the scenario the other way around: criminal organizations have all the means necessary to create their own communication channels and don’t need to rely on “public” tools, it’s just a convenience (they can fork any tool any time). Therefore, sacrificing privacy by simplisticly making believe that this is THE way to counter criminality is a disgusting manipulation tactic.
Privacy is non-negotiable, period.
Check the date or otherwise the replies on that forum post.
Not to mention the author name gives it away
ChatGPT ehhh but Gemini, oo boy indeed a nightmare.
The article reads like either a joke or completely delusional garbage to the privacy community like us, but it could be misconstrued and quoted as truth by general audiences who casually skim it, or be mindlessly consumed and spat out by AI. Apart from the fact that the article is published by Privacy Guides and the link to the author’s profile page contain “aprilfools” it’s not immediately obvious the article is just a joke, and it kinda reads like it could have been written by an anti-privacy person.
Is there any plan to place a warning at the top after April 1st, or plant obvious/verifiable by general audiences garbage (outright lies, contradictions, sensationalist language etc.) into the article?
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They probably should as not every English speaking user lives with US culture.
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I thought this would make sense to add near the end of the day so the daily community folks can get their lolz and then the long standing article is an antipattern example of the type of claims one might hear in the media and its so off base we made fun of it. But you definitely need to apply Poe’s Law after the 1st so folks aren’t confused which seems to have been added.
This also makes the community vibe as more accessible and less stern.
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With all the April’s fools I read during the year, I missed to recognize this one… 
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Considering the constant attacks that E2EE is receiving by different politicians and proposed laws, is that April’s fool article going to stay up indefinitely? I am genuinely asking
It has been clearly tagged as an April Fools joke:
This article was published on April 1st, 2025.
Privacy Guides supports strong encryption as a cornerstone of digital security and personal freedom. End-to-end encryption ensures that your communications remain yours, which is a principle worth preserving.
@jonah perhaps this post could have (April Fools) added to the title for clarity on the forum
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It’s a pro E2EE article if you read it, so yes. We can note it here on the forum though.
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I didn’t and still don’t want to be that guy but I always think such news are unwarranted. There’s enough mis and disinformation on the internet and a lot of people are not too smart. You know? The general public for the most part.
Anyways - I didn’t say anything because it was all in good fun but then again.. people are not too smart especially about tech and esoteric things with it.
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Yes, you and I are aware that it is a pro E2EE article.
But just like @anon36940904 wrote, not everyone will understand that. And a lot of bad-faith actors exist who are more than happy to take just a screenshot of something taken out of context to show that “encryption is bad. After all, a website called Privacy Guide said so”.
So I ask again, while I am aware that the article is a joke, is it going to stay up indefinitely? Or is it something that is going to hurt the community if left online?
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Bad actors will use cached versions of the same even after its taken down (if it is) if its been cached already - as far as I understand how it would go, if it ever went south. And then justifying it and explaining is always a nightmare to correct people’s thinking.
Anyways, it’s not up-to me and that’s why I didn’t say anything until now.
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I too don’t want to be that guy potentially defending a joke made in poor taste, but we went this route with the joke intentionally to avoid all of these misinformation problems the internet has.
We could have gone the straight up fake news route with some dumb announcement along the lines of being acquired by the NSA or NordVPN or whatever, but those jokes are ultimately not in good fun, like Zen Browser “announcing” their switch to Chromium 
At the risk of over-explaining the joke, the article covers the benefits of E2EE, and clearly only uses fallacious arguments against it. Every single section contrasts the actual benefits of E2EE with supposed dangers that don’t hold up to logic or scrutiny.
The article is legitimate and a good source of information about E2EE despite the negative tone, so again, yes I think it is valuable to the community at large in its current state. It isn’t clickbait, and it isn’t misinformation: It legitimately describes the “dangers of E2EE” that are commonly argued online, and disagrees with them.
Frankly, I think that being able to parse out meaning and facts from articles regardless of the tone they are written in is an important skill-set.
I strongly feel that we should never be in a mindset where we assume everyone else is dumber than we are. The constant talk of “normies” and other similar terms in the technical community is highly alienating to people.
So far other arguments boil down to “well I totally get the joke, but [xyz person] might not!” which I don’t feel is compelling, it’s just speculation.
Privacy Guides has always been written with the assumption that the reader is able to understand the words in front of them. I don’t think we should change that approach.
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Privacy Guides can’t be expected to bear responsibility for bad-faith misinterpretations or the inevitable minority that will misunderstand the message no matter how it is conveyed.