Telegram: 200M Monthly Active Users

Re:Telegram: 200M Monthly Active Users by soziawa on Friday March 23, 2018 @03:16AM (#16655787)

But it shares all the metadata with Facebook which sucks. Threema and Signal are better in that respect and you loose almost no features.

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Re:Telegram: 200M Monthly Active Users by huhtenberg on Friday March 23, 2018 @03:24AM (#16655815)

It shares your full _contacts_ with Facebook.

This doesn't just "suck", it's completely unacceptable.

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Re:Telegram: 200M Monthly Active Users by soziawa on Friday March 23, 2018 @03:39AM (#16655872)

While bad I think it's worse that the location available through your IP is available to facebook. Further they can guess with which contacts you work with, are good or not so good friends with. And it will be kept forever at Facebook and at companies like Cambridge Analytica.

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Re:Telegram: 200M Monthly Active Users by 18pfsmt on Friday March 23, 2018 @05:19PM (#16662718)

How do you think Telegram plans to monetize? I realize they had an ICO that raised $850M, but that is not a sustainable revenue mechanism in and of itself.

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