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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by tubularhells on Monday March 15, 2021 @08:37AM (#26465298)
Not everyone wants to sell user data. Their business is in private communication. WhatsApp reads through all your shit, whether you like it or not.
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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by sfifs on Monday March 15, 2021 @09:19AM (#26465744)
Nope. WhatsApp can only potentially read your group messages since 1:1 messages are end to end encrypted. You shouldn't spread FUD
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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by alfongj on Monday March 15, 2021 @12:28PM (#26468045)
WhatsApp group chats are end to end encrypted too. You must be thinking of... Telegram, where only secret 1:1 chats are end to end encrypted
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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by tpush on Monday March 15, 2021 @12:25PM (#26467991)
Group messages are also end-to-end encrypted.
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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by tubularhells on Monday March 15, 2021 @09:50AM (#26466076)
This was in the news some months ago, they have backdoors for 1:1s that they use to comply with government agency and police data requests. Do go look it up.
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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by EMM_386 on Monday March 15, 2021 @11:37AM (#26467247)
This is untrue.

https://signal.org/blog/there-is-no-whatsapp-backdoor/

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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by Aachen on Monday March 15, 2021 @05:37PM (#26469461)
This has not been found, that would be major news on mainstream channels. (Do go and cite sources.)

If you need some obscure news source for this, it's very unlikely to be true and unless you or a trusted friend of yours has reasonable expertise in the relevant field (reverse engineering or cryptography might be relevant, perhaps both depending on the type of backdoor) you can't rely on some controversial source being correct.

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