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Re:WhatsApp goes down for users globally by bombolo on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @07:12AM (#33328951)
You can enable e2e chats. But you lose cloud sync.

> Also, being based in the UAE doesn't inspire confidence on the privacy and security front...

Well the 5 eyes do not inspire confidence either, and that's where whatsapp is based.

And Apple has plans to automatically inform law enforcement from device scans. At least telegram client is open source so that is unlikely to happen on the client side directly.

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Re:WhatsApp goes down for users globally by rakoo on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @07:57AM (#33329325)
> You can enable e2e chats. But you lose cloud sync.

You also lose talking to more than 1 person at the same time.

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Re:WhatsApp goes down for users globally by gaius_baltar on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @09:36AM (#33330279)
And link previews. Groups are never secure, too.

Also AFAIK Telegram has access to the plain text data from stickers so when they are downloaded by a person on a secret chat, everybody with server access can also figure a bit of the context of the conversation.

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