Quote from: ChiBitCTy on Today at 06:51:02 PM

Quote from: examplens on September 24, 2024, 12:14:50 PM

After the arrest, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov updated the app's security and privacy policies, the IP addresses and phone numbers of those who violate rules can be disclosed to authorities in valid legal requests. A significant change considering that Telegram was considered one of the applications with a somewhat higher level of anonymity.
They claim it was their decision, but apparently, the arrest pushed the matter.

It may be a good thing in detecting scams, but it will significantly affect all businesses that rely on anonymity on Telegram.

Durov's (CEO of Telegram) article regarding the Telegram Terms of Service and Privacy Policy: https://t.me/durov/345

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Over the last few weeks, a dedicated team of moderators, leveraging AI, has made Telegram Search much safer. All the problematic content we identified in Search is no longer accessible. If you still manage to find something unsafe or illegal in Telegram Search, please report it to us via @SearchReport.

To further deter criminals from abusing Telegram Search, we have updated our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, ensuring they are consistent across the world. We’ve made it clear that the IP addresses and phone numbers of those who violate our rules can be disclosed to relevant authorities in response to valid legal requests.

Well fuck this then. I rarely use Telegram anyhow. I guess in the past I've used them to mainly chat with other forum members (either via text or voice calls) as well as for group "chats" and mainly in which involved NFTs. There's a few NFT sales groups that are ran straight off of Telegram. At the time this was the best way to do so. There's a lot of different bitcoin groups on there I know.

This is a big reminder to use Signal. Signal is hands down the most secure messaging platform out there.

Wont be surprised if there would really be some other platforms that would emerged on which it would really be replacing up Telegram into its current position now. Somehow it will really be that hard
on replacing on something that had been trusted out by many for years. We cant be able to deny on how big Telegram now when it comes to reputation and popularity of this messaging app on which same goes with Discord too. Just like the rest been saying that issues could arise up instantly whenever there would really be those sudden issues or problems that had been thrown and later on they do become a centralized platform
on which you will really be needing up to verify or comply or they could be able to trace up a certain user on which it do really sucks on this case. As i have said above that sooner or later if things turns out to be that
choking or something which is really that too much, then people will really be finding out another place on which they could really be able to hang on and make use without any issues or compromising their
privacy or anonymity on which we know that this is really that something important here on this space. Whenever there would really be changes then this is where people would be starting on having doubts
on using up such services or whatever it would be. People will really be that commonsensely be dealing up with things that they do prefer and wanted.