New Delhi, May 10 -- Instagram has officialy ended end-to-end encryption on the platform, meaning users who care about the sanctity of their messages will now have to choose a different platform. The Mark Zuckerberg led platform had made the big public announcement about bringing encryption to Instagram and other Meta platforms, stating 'future is private'

The company eventually began giving users the option of having end-to-end encryption on their Instagram chats in 2022. However, unlike WhatsApp where end-to-end encryption is the standard for all conversations, Instagram users had to manually enable 'secret conversations' for each chat in order to start the encryption.

While the rollout may have seemed ingenious, the end of the featur...