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Telegram is lying to you about privacy
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this post was submitted on 26 May 2026
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You can build the app from source code though. Couldn't you compare that to the Google Build?
Also, you could use a fork like Molly, they removed all proprietary binary blobs and replaced them with FOSS alternatives. And it's still fully compatible with Signal
only if the app is built reproducibly. I suspect the google libraries are likely minified/obfuscated by default though.
I do, but that's only so much when the point of the app is communicating with other people