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Neither can be trusted, but Telegram's UI and privacy track record have been much better so far.

• palata 4y ago
  That's debatable, since WhatsApp has e2ee and Telegram doesn't (nobody uses Telegram for the secret chats, let's be honest).
  • hutzlibu 4y ago
    "(nobody uses Telegram for the secret chats, let's be honest)." Thats what you would think from a technical point of view, but actually I witnessed some drama with people installing Telegram, because the partner thought it was done only for this "secret chat" option, which seems to be popular for people having affairs. As it leaves no trace on the phone. Most people don't care about the NSA. They care about their partner, or parents spying on them (which says a lot about the integrity of those relationships).
    • Markoff 4y ago
      Whatsapp has disappearing messages, though it takes 24 hours to disappear, don't understand, why they can't make it instant after reading or within minutes. Personally I don't use it. I mean if you wanna cheat is it really that difficult to not forget manually delete the chat instead using feature which does it for you?
      • hutzlibu 4y ago
        "I mean if you wanna cheat is it really that difficult to not forget manually delete the chat instead using feature which does it for you?" Haha, real secret agents forgot Top Secret documents in the subway or alike. Normal people absolutely forget to do this.