I can see Telegram being better than Facebook in that it doesn’t feed a unified profile that becomes a honeypot for massive leaks. However, even Whatsapp is encrypted end-to-end by default, while Telegram isn’t. Most people don’t turn it on. I say that based on nudge theory (you’re adding sludge to a process that should be automatic) and based on my conversations with people who thought Telegram was better than Signal.
In the sense of exposing the data of most of its users, Telegram is worse than Facebook.
But whatsapp is part of facebook, and without a doubt gives its data to us government and also my own government. That alone is enough to disqualify it for me.
You haven’t seen them probably because you haven’t been in certain group chats: https://promote.telegram.org/
I can see Telegram being better than Facebook in that it doesn’t feed a unified profile that becomes a honeypot for massive leaks. However, even Whatsapp is encrypted end-to-end by default, while Telegram isn’t. Most people don’t turn it on. I say that based on nudge theory (you’re adding sludge to a process that should be automatic) and based on my conversations with people who thought Telegram was better than Signal.
In the sense of exposing the data of most of its users, Telegram is worse than Facebook.
But whatsapp is part of facebook, and without a doubt gives its data to us government and also my own government. That alone is enough to disqualify it for me.