What's the business model? The app is free, I'm not going to install it but they claim to be ad free too. Are they a charity designed to squirt cyphertext aro

What's the business model? The app is free, I'm not going to install it but they claim to be ad free too. Are they a charity designed to squirt cyphertext around the globe? Monitoring my behavior to monetize it? freemium? This bit clears it up: PRIVACY: We take your privacy very seriously and will never give third parties access to your data! Oh. So they're marketing an app under the banner of privacy, but architected to enable data collection from me. I can opt into having slightly less data collectable with additional encryption (of questionable quality) on top of their standard service. In an age where the greatest threats to privacy are corporate surveillance and the NSA's legal authority to collect data form businesses, they protect my privacy on exactly zero fronts. Their messaging is either oblivious or underhanded: "We built Telegram to make messaging safe again so you can take back your right to privacy."