Nobody privacy in mind should ever use it in India since Telegram had agreed to comply PM's surveillance policy.
this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2023
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Telegram does send number verification texts to non-premium accounts. That's how people get onboarded into telegram.
Telegram is on f Droid, and the source code is on GitHub, for their open source client. You can build the client right now.
I noticed another commenter said it's not end to end encrypted, the open source client and the secret chats are end to end encrypted, but they are not the default.
Telegram has been leaking your IP to your chats and calls for months: https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/03/psa-chat-call-apps-reveal-ip-address/
It's encryption algorithm (only used in secret chats BTW) is proprietary which is huge a red flag.
I'm not paying for Telegram and I haven't noticed missing out anywhere because of it. I'm using the APK file instead of the Play Store version because the latter censors Russian media channels (and I hate censorship). I wasn't even aware there were premium accounts.
I'm in 2 dozen channels, have a few friends who mainly use Telegram instead of the competitors and I haven't noticed a single issue, except for their homegrown encryption scheme.
I’m using the APK file instead of the Play Store version because the latter censors Russian media channels (and I hate censorship)
This stance is what eventually turns one into a communist. I would know. I had it.
I've never used Telegram until recently. I keep receiving spam on it all the time.
Weird. I never get spam on telegram. How are people adding you? Are you discoverable? Are you letting people add you by phone number?
I'll have to check
Edit: everything is set so only my contacts can contact me. But I still get random messages.
Maybe because they already have your phone number.
I'd be very surprised.
Well that's the thing about spammers, they'll just try to connect to every phone number.. when they find a match, they can put that in a list, and sell it to other people