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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by bilekas on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:24PM (#25663483)
IMO telegram has the best feature and usability parity as Whatsapp..

As for converting people who are not that interested, I can tell you from experience talking about privacy generally doesn't sell it.

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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by Valodim on Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:27AM (#25668650)
It bears repeating: Telegram is not e2e encrypted. Messages you write on telegram will be stored on some Russian servers forever.
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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by bilekas on Thursday January 07, 2021 @05:12AM (#25669339)
What are you talking about ? Telegram encryption is based on 2048-bit RSA encryption, 256-bit symmetric AES encryption, and Diffie–Hellman secure key exchange

For end2end you can just use the secret chat function.. https://core.telegram.org/api/end-to-end

Feel free to check their source out - https://telegram.org/apps#source-code

So I'm not sure what 'bears repeating'.

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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by Tepix on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:57AM (#25670031)
The "secret chat" function should be default. Why isn't it? Also, it's not available at all for group chats.
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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by FalconSensei on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:56PM (#25663854)
People still use facebook/instagram/gmail. If you tell them whatsapp is linked to facebook, it changes nothing to them...
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