Wait… whaat ?? There are actual people who knowingly prefer WhatsApp to telegram ? I truly prefer telegram to WhatsApp, and am very surprised about this. To me WhatsApp = Facebook and I cannot fathom to use it if I can avoid it.
To be clear they’re both shit from a privacy perspective.
Telegram has effectively no security by default. WhatsApp has better security on paper with meaningful end to end encryption. But Facebook still get your meta data and they scan images in the chat to check for illegal data.
That said I basically agree with you for insecure conversations. Telegram might have access to more of my data in a chat but they don’t connect it up with all of the data Facebook has tracking me across the internet.
only feature i can think of losing is cross device sync. But i’m not really sure, i literally only use telegram for my mom. e2e is not important, and i refuse to use anything Meta touches (and i didn’t know about signal beforehand)
Texting my spouse in another country with random nonsense, even though with our data plan, it’s $0.10 a text.
Can’t you use something like Telegram/Signal/WhatsApp and avoid the charges?
Signal. Whatsapp maybe. But Telegram isn’t even encrypted e2e. Never Telegram.
Wait… whaat ?? There are actual people who knowingly prefer WhatsApp to telegram ? I truly prefer telegram to WhatsApp, and am very surprised about this. To me WhatsApp = Facebook and I cannot fathom to use it if I can avoid it.
To be clear they’re both shit from a privacy perspective.
Telegram has effectively no security by default. WhatsApp has better security on paper with meaningful end to end encryption. But Facebook still get your meta data and they scan images in the chat to check for illegal data.
That said I basically agree with you for insecure conversations. Telegram might have access to more of my data in a chat but they don’t connect it up with all of the data Facebook has tracking me across the internet.
Pssst hey kids … nextcloud.com. You wanna score some privacy?
Warning it may lead to Linux and other Foss addictions.
Telegram has e2e, but you have to create an e2e chat. Also, supposedly telegram rolled their own encryption, which is bad juju.
Yeah, in secret chats. Where you lose all the features why people use Telegram over other messengers.
only feature i can think of losing is cross device sync. But i’m not really sure, i literally only use telegram for my mom. e2e is not important, and i refuse to use anything Meta touches (and i didn’t know about signal beforehand)