Encryption is not the solution to everything. On most group chats I don’t care much about the non-sense that is written being public, but I do very much care about my identity not being revealed, especially not in a way to is linked to a government ID & that can be used to track me and annoy me with unwanted calls.
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.
Encryption is not the solution to everything. On most group chats I don’t care much about the non-sense that is written being public, but I do very much care about my identity not being revealed, especially not in a way to is linked to a government ID & that can be used to track me and annoy me with unwanted calls.
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.
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.