Comment on How Telegram's Founder Pavel Durov Became a Culture War Martyr [404]
sqgl@beehaw.org 3 weeks agoI heard Russia once blocked all social media for three days except Telegram, claiming that could not. Sounds like a deliberate exemption to bolster its reputation. China had no problem blocking it.
jarfil@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
It may not be just the Kremlin. I’ve had several cases where I wrote about something in a Telegram chat, stuff I had never talked about before, and in a matter of seconds started seeing related ads on Facebook.
Alternatively, it could be the keyboard leaking all text, or I could have some other spyware, but I’ve only had that happen to me between Telegram and Facebook.
sqgl@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Not quite true. They are server-side encrypted, not end-to-end. Still bad and I had no idea until I looked it up just now.
I use Gboard keyboard on my phone which undermines my Signal privacy. I could use my laptop instance of Signal to prevent leakage.