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I never found signal lacking in any way, except that occasionally push notifications don’t get through. When people say signal is lacking in features, what do they mean? Simplicity is appealing too

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They (at least it's me) are possibly meaning the excellent multi-device use. I can easilly use Telegram on like 10 different devices, all chats are in sync.

This also means that it's much easier to spy on someone on Telegram: just create a fake device with telegram, then login the user into it using a phone with fake identity. Easy-peasy for a (Russian) government.

I am not sure what do you mean by spying. How does "create a fake device with telegram" work?

It seems hard to add a rogue device to an existing user's account without them knowing. The 5-digit login code is sent by SMS only when there is no other devices logged into Telegram in the account. In all other cases the user will be notified by seeing the confirmation code message on their Telegram app.

One can add a password as an authentication factor for their Telegram account also. Just in case the login code is intercepted.

Any time someone logs into your account you immediately get a notification on all devices with the IP address the attempt originated from.

Yeah, e2ee importance for chat is grossly overrepresented. Vast majority of users would happily trade security and privacy for convenience.

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