Telegram successfully fought against attempt of blocking in ussia in 2018 by providing regular updates and using different techniques to avoid blocking.
I too heard Russia blocked all social media for a couple of days except Telegram, claiming they could not. Sounds like a deliberate exemption to bolster its reputation. China has blocked it (apart from VPN’s).
It may not be just the Kremlin. I’ve had several cases where I wrote about something in a Telegram chat, stuff I had never talked about before, and in a matter of seconds started seeing related ads on Facebook.
Alternatively, it could be the keyboard leaking all text, or I could have some other spyware, but I’ve only had that happen to me between Telegram and Facebook.
I too heard Russia blocked all social media for a couple of days except Telegram, claiming they could not. Sounds like a deliberate exemption to bolster its reputation. China has blocked it (apart from VPN’s).
It seems Russia has a back door key into Telegram.
It may not be just the Kremlin. I’ve had several cases where I wrote about something in a Telegram chat, stuff I had never talked about before, and in a matter of seconds started seeing related ads on Facebook.
Alternatively, it could be the keyboard leaking all text, or I could have some other spyware, but I’ve only had that happen to me between Telegram and Facebook.
Not quite true. They are server-side encrypted, not end-to-end. Still bad and I had no idea until I looked it up just now (thanks to you).
I use Gboard keyboard on my phone which undermines my Signal privacy. I could use my laptop instance of Signal to prevent leakage.