Iphone & Android will no longer support Whatsapp, Signal

Our Take

Credit to the creator for keeping an eye on a real and under-covered fight: governments in the UK, EU, and increasingly the US have floated rules that would pressure platforms into weakening or backdooring end-to-end encryption, and app stores are the choke point where that pressure gets applied. Whether the specific claim in this video's title plays out exactly as described, the underlying trend — regulators and "trust and safety" mandates nudging Apple and Google toward gatekeeping which messaging apps survive — is worth watching closely rather than dismissing outright.

We'd caution readers to treat the most dramatic framing here as a prompt to verify, not a verdict. Channels built around sweeping "elites vs. the public" narratives can blur real policy fights with speculation, so check primary sources (app store policy pages, actual legislative text) before you share. That said, the instinct behind the alarm is sound: encrypted messaging and location privacy are both casualties of the same surveillance creep we track here — license plate readers quietly logging your movements are just the physical-world version of an app store quietly deciding which privacy tools you're allowed to keep.

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