With that definition of “end”, “end-to-end encryption” isn’t different from just plain “encryption”. The significance of the phrase is that you don’t leak anything outside the ultimate ends of the communication, including to servers in the middle.
>>wrs+(OP)
> The significance of the phrase is that you don’t leak anything outside the ultimate ends of the communication, including to servers in the middle.
Correct, but when you're viewing a web page (as opposed to using the web for peer-to-peer communications), that webserver is the ultimate end of the communication.