Why do we care about end-to-end encryption

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In the last few years phones and apps have been touting themselves as better than other phones/services because their messaging has end-to-end encryption, or some other variant of secure messaging. Why do we care?

Edit: Thanks for the answers, everyone!

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it means that the encryption/decryption happens at the sender and receiver, it isn’t clear text on some server somewhere in the middle where three-letter agencies or hackers etc. can listen in

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