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Telegram is not better than WhatsApp in the very important aspect that it is not end-to-end encrypted. You can balance up the risks of facebook inserting malicious code into their client against the risks of your data being accessable at rest on Telegram's servers, but it's not at all clear Telegram is in a better spot there.

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e2e encryption is mostly moot considering neither the client-application nor -device are really trustworthy.

then there is the problem with push-notifications passing throu either google or apple as well as device-backups which both hand over your metadata and probably message content.

imo telegram is in a better spot simply because it is not affilliated with the facebook/google ecosystem but in the end it does not make much of a difference due to aforementioned systematic deficiencies.

imo good reasons to cash in on the platform compatibility and convenience of telegrams cloud-messaging architecture.

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