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> Another pain point for me (in the EU/Balkans) is the transfer of Whatsapp and Viber. Telegram, due to not being e2e encrypted, is trivial to transfer, a new

by LtWorf 8mo ago

> Another pain point for me (in the EU/Balkans) is the transfer of Whatsapp and Viber. Telegram, due to not being e2e encrypted, is trivial to transfer, a new login does it.

wolvoleo 8mo ago
Yes but that's because the server has access to all your messages, they are not end to end encrypted. It makes things a lot easier yes but you do give up a lot of privacy too.
- eMPee584 8mo ago
  The server, and plausibly at least one secret service. Telegram datacenters are located in Florida, Amsterdam and Singapure.. guess local jurisdiction applies.
  - LtWorf 8mo ago
    I am 100% convinced that whatsapp has backdoors and so I might as well just use the convenient one.