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Telegram is still leaking user IP addresses to contacts (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 year ago by igalmarino@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Leaking ip's is meh, however sharing info with feds while mentioning not doing this very thing in their own FAQ is shady AF. Then we have their serverside being proprietary garbage, plus intrusive info collection (like why do they need no know my hostname, device model, desktop environment, etc?). Did I mentioned they started advertising crap based on the channels a user's subscribed to? Yeah, telegram still sucks when it comes to privacy, and it's only getting worse over time