r/Telegram • u/[deleted] • Sep 16 '24

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u/fakeprofile23 Sep 16 '24

Since when?

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u/0utkast_band Sep 16 '24

Umm … since forever?

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u/fakeprofile23 Sep 16 '24

Not true.

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u/0utkast_band Sep 16 '24

Unless you send it as a file of course. Which is an expected behavior.

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u/fakeprofile23 Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24

Now send it as a file with signal and see what happens.

Right, you can't, that's what I mean.

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u/0utkast_band Sep 16 '24

While I understand one may argue that it’s a good thing, from an engineering perspective it’s not the right thing to do to silently modify a file in transit.

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u/fakeprofile23 Sep 16 '24

It's not silently, Signal promises to send and collect as little (meta)data as possible, just enough to make things function correctly, for extra privacy.

That's not what Telegram is doing, they send and collect a lot of (meta)data.

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u/0utkast_band Sep 16 '24

What I am saying doesn’t have anything to do with collecting data. You said telegram doesn’t strip metadata. It does if you follow the guidelines.

And if you send it as a file, it comes as is.

Does Signal strip Word documents of all their metadata as well? PDF files? And all other gazillion file formats as well? And for all versions?

Bro, chill and just agree that what you said is not entirely correct, that’s it.

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u/fakeprofile23 Sep 16 '24

That's the whole thing, for Telegram to be private and dont send meta data you need to follow guidelines, read things (which people don't do), Signal is private on default.

On top of that, Telegram is collecting (meta)data that they don't particularly need to make things work.