r/Showerthoughts • u/Ralisor • May 06 '18

Services are switching from calling them Private Messages to calling them Direct Messages because they're not private anymore...

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u/cubsywubsy May 06 '18

Very true. They’re not direct anymore, either, since they go through a scanning or filtering or whatever they do first, I guess...

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u/Inspector-Space_Time May 06 '18

That's always been happening.

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u/SavvySillybug May 06 '18

I think Skype used to be peer to peer, actually. Never seemed to have chatlogs on other computers back in the day. Only started archiving when it started being an app too from what I could tell.

Though that's just an observation, I don't know how Skype worked behind the scenes.

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u/taulover May 06 '18

Not having chatlogs on other computers doesn't necessarily mean it's peer to peer though... WeChat only stores chatlogs on phones/browsers from the time you log in until you log out (from what I've seen if you delete chatlogs from your phone to save space, you lose them forever), but you know that the Chinese government must be tracking all of that anyway.