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Telegram is fantastic! Frankly I think it has a better ux then Whatsapp, especially considering the desktop apps.
by Hammershaft 6y ago
Telegram is fantastic! Frankly I think it has a better ux then Whatsapp, especially considering the desktop apps.
- qwertox 6y agoTelegram isn't serious about privacy. They made my number searchable and notified people who have me in their Google contact list even though I didn't grant Telegram access to my contact list (before the time when Android would enforce this with permissions) and didn't allow them to use my number for anything. Then it turned out that they have a setting where one can opt out, but what good is that if you already were opted in automatically. In "Last Seen & Online" I had a deleted account in the exceptions of those who can always see my status, even though I never added one. Telegram may be better than WhatsApp, but it is far from fantastic.
- Hammershaft 6y agoThose are fair problems that I wasn't aware of.
- neuronic 6y agoYou're right but I prefer it over WhatsApp/Facebook and I started using it when about 3/4 of my network moved to Telegram (to support their move away from WhatsApp/Facebook).
- easytiger 6y agoI'm fairly certain I enabled all possible privacy options when I installed telegram. I went to specific lengths to do so. I still get "xyz has joined telegram!" when a new friend joins up from my contact list. Yep: just checked. Nothing more I can do to increase privacy settings. Zero confidence in it after that
- brobinson 6y agoConsider Threema instead. It recently went open source and it has top-notch, Signal-quality crypto and you don't need to provide a phone number or email.
- Tepix 6y agoTelegram lacks end-to-end encrypted group chats and normal chats are not end-to-end encrypted by default, you have to switch to a "secure" chat every time you start a new chat.