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How can I discourage my dad to install Telegram? (feddit.it)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by dontblink@feddit.it to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Telegram and Facebook share the fact that they've got lots of content and communities built around them.

I use telegram for my home automation stuff because it's free, the web hooks are super quick, and it supports image upload

But all my family chatter happens on signal.

The best way you can convince somebody not to put their entire life on telegram or Facebook is to tell them that advertisers are reading their conversations and giving them ads based on what they talk about people feel that spooky as shit

[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I've used Telegram for years and never seen an ad. Their Privacy Policy says ads aren't based on messages

Unlike other services, we don't use your data for ad targeting or other commercial purposes. Telegram only stores the information it needs to function as a secure and feature-rich cloud service.

Telegram offers a tool for advertisers to promote their messages in public one-to-many channels, but these sponsored messages are based solely on the topic of the public channels in which they are shown. No user data is mined or analyzed to display ads or sponsored messages.

[–] hossein@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's about the fact that you HAVE TO trust them to not read your plaintext messages, not see your private photos, whereas Signal is open source (ok both server and client side) and end to end encrypted so you don't really have to trust anyone.

[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

I understand your point and I support & contribute to FOSS. But I was specifically addressing the claim that Telegram reads all messages and sells them to the highest bidder. They don't currently, unless someone can point me towards a credible source

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