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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Signal vs Telegram (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What is better for privacy? Signal or Telegram? I know XMPP is better then both of them.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Get a burner phone number and set up a pin, problem solved. If you think telegram can be anonymous you are being rather naive. Go to your session lists and read information on all of your connected devices, whether connected through proxy or not. That's not a one-out example. Did you share contacts list? Did you ever enable location? What about your device's uptime? It is very much pseudonymous.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Many if not most countries do not allow getting a phone SIM without linking it to your official government ID.

Edit: I rather suggest using XMPP. But Telegram is not strictly worse than Signal in every way.