Comment by amaranth
5 years ago
I think Ars Technica's take on this makes the most sense. Basically the new architecture might make violating privacy easier but they could do that with the old one too and there are legitimate improvements from the new architecture that are more than enough explanation for the switch.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/07/skype...
The main reason was to make is compliant with the desire of US Law Enforcement. but yea continues to believe what you want. I really dont care
All of the performance improvements could have been done while maintaining the core of P2P, the ONLY reason to centralize it is to make it easy to tap, and harvest data from