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Craig Hale

Facebook is killing off its encrypted email program because nobody used it

Email app on mobile device.

Facebook is killing off an eight-year-old feature that probably no-one was using anyway, because there’s a much better solution that’s likely used by the majority of the platform’s users.

From 2015, users have been able to opt-in to receive encrypted notification emails from Facebook, but the majority of those emails are usually considered spam, mostly notifying users about likes and comments that the app can do already, so it’s likely that most people have by now opted out entirely from Facebook’s emails.

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