How do notifications work in the official Telegram Android app (Play Store vs Site version maybe)? Does it have the same mechanism as Signal, which only recognizes the presence of notifications via Google services, but sends them via its web socket service?
Yes it is. Wtf
It doesn’t need to do that, so yes, it is bad.
Telegram already discloses people’s identities when state governments ask. Why would it not disclose groups?
A year ago, you would have said Telegram doesn’t disclose people’s identities. Telegram constantly backpedals its claims, after getting caught in a lie.
… You say, ignoring every other problem Telegram has but Signal does not
Could you prove that? More specifically, I need proof that it allows public groups for protesters to gain mass and protect their identifies adequately at all times.
It does need that. Signal stores this information too. Just because it’s encrypted doesn’t mean it will not be handled to someone against your will.
I don’t know, maybe because I can’t imagine why even the most insane government would come up with laws that would allow it to ask internet services something like “hey there is this person, please provide some data of their activity on your service” instead of just capturing that person and making them spill out everything themselves. If you are at the point where your groups are disclosed this won’t be the result of government’s requests to some service. It’ll be the starting point for those.
I wouldn’t.
Signal’s way to “not have problems” is to avoid users who could bring them.
Sure, there’s pl–
I don’t accept your reframing.
Telegram’s public groups mean people can anonymously view the contents of the messages, which is a danger to protesters. I don’t know why you would even bring up this so-called feature.
No. It doesn’t. We have multiple court documents to prove this.
This is unhinged.
As pointed out above, Signal has been used in multiple protests in the past and is still used by activists and people who care about privacy today.