Besides, here is what I replied to:
> As a reminder, Telegram groups are not encrypted at all[...]
(emphasis mine)
This is very possible to misunderstand for someone who isn't aware and the result might easily be that they stay in their abusive relationship with WhatsApp because of such FUD.
As can probably be seen from my comment history I'm no stranger to criticizing Telegram but we should stick to the facts.
Facts matter.
Let me use an example:
Would you want to ride the absolutely bulletproof and soundproof taxi that has one disadvantage: that it is well known that the drivers make notes about who you are and who you visit and sell that data to companies like Cambridge Analytica?
Or would you take another more ordinary taxi that might not be armoured and soundproof and might or might not log your visits - but at least no one has caught them red handed?
The answer depends on who you are I guess: [edit: if your main fear is that someone might be listening to your conversations and you don't care if the known shady taxi company logs who you visit, go with armoured, bulletproof taxi. I admit] there are times when E2E is a massive difference but for me this is mostly about preventing future Cambridge Analytica situations.
there are times when bulletproof is important and in such cases you absolutely should go for it.
But most of the time and most places it is just a giant waste.
This isn't just misleading but actually plain wrong.
Unless you want to tell my your internet banking is unencrypted too ;-)
Edit: as seen downthread there a number of ways to make this more or less correct, but as it stand, and particularly with the "at all" at the end of one of the claims it is just plain wrong.
> Telegram can see most of your messages.
This part is technically correct however. Telegram says they taken steps to prevent rouge admins from seing it and to prevent themselves from being able to produce copies for governments, however there's no way for us to know if it was true then, if it is true now, if it is true in the future or at any point in between so worthless if you don't trust them.
If this is a problem for you generally I recommend stop using email, stop sending letters etc and rely only on Signal or Matrix.
For many of us however this is acceptable: we send letters or even post cards fully unencrypted fully aware that they might be read.
We send mails fully aware that it can be read at any server from we send it to the one the recipient download it from.
But for some reason the same level of security is deeply problematic when Telegram is mentioned.