> Additionally, your address book is continuously synced to Telegram servers. It doesn't even need access to contacts to run, and it happily runs on machines t

> Additionally, your address book is continuously synced to Telegram servers. It doesn't even need access to contacts to run, and it happily runs on machines that don't even have address books (and, might I add, has the best UX there as well). What you do need, at least for initial signup, is the ability to receive SMS, like you do with Signal. I wish all of them would just stop that nonsense.