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“Skype is retiring in May 2025”

Skype, whose utter disregard for user privacy around ten years ago, potentially harmed many people and businesses. Essentially they shared peoples’ contacts with other parties with whom there was a third party association as “people you might know”. So - salespeople had their clients being effectively told who other clients were, psychologists’ patients were given big hints about who else might be seeing the same psych, it was chaos and they pretty much shrugged it off. Around the same time they crippled functionality if you didn’t let them access your address book. Of course many changes were walked back, but it came too late - other messaging and calling options took off.

Plus the well-documented issues with Skype numbers and credit for Skype calls. People alleging they’d been debited without permission, others couldn’t get refunds, all sorts of nonsense.

Skype - enjoy your retirement; you’ve soon all the time in the world to go **** yourself.