Comment on Which one do you trust the most for your privacy?

Scolding7300@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m also using telegram but I don’t trust it. It’s made by two Russian brothers who are fleeing from every country in the world. A bit to sketchy in my opinion.

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  • Scolding7300@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t trust them either but that’s sometimes a good sign. It’s been used for illegal activities using a 3rd party client for a while in one country that I know of, which oddly enough makes me a little more comfortable. Or at least that country just couldn’t get access to the data

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• vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  non e2e encrypted by default, is not a sane privacy policy

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  • Scolding7300@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    IMO I’d rather have that and have them clearly say they’re not using it for anything than potentially be profiled on WhatsApp where my friends keyboards are spying on their end in terms of content, i.e. be plugged into a social network with half the conversation exposed that way.

    I say sane in comparison to that.

    Granted these are my own concerns

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    • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      they use the same keyboards in different apps…

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      • Scolding7300@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wdym? I’m under the impression that the Google native/default keyboard on Android feeds some stuff to their ad-related dataset

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• iesou@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe check out beeper? I’m not sure if it has Telegram integration but it works with WhatsApp and Signal as well as Matrix iMessage and others

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  • Scolding7300@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    www.beeper.com/privacy

    We use your information only as you’ve permitted and in service of bettering your user experience.

    Probably not for me :(

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  • Scolding7300@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Will do, thanks!

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• aksdb@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As long as Signal requires my phone number, it’s a hard NO for me. I don’t care how good they encrypt if the first thing they do is require one of my most personal identifiers.

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  • Scolding7300@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I heard from their forums it’s something they’re working on, so hopefully this year

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    • rainerloeten@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’ll be able to connect with people by giving out your username instead of your phone number. You will however still be required to register using your phone number, if I’m not completely mistaken.

      So you can buy a burner phone (number) to receive the registration code and you’re good. Perhaps need to keep the number for migrating to new phone though.

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