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Nelson

A little experience:

When someone asks me how to contact me and I say Telegram, they look at me as some kind of strange person. Do you use Whatsapp as everyone or Messenger? they replied looking for a middle solution. And I always finish talking about why I prefer Telegram (and currently Signal) than Whatsapp: security measures, support open source and what your article said (but with messages context) about security measures.

The part everyone goes crazy is when I tell them that Messenger (the Facebook app for messages) knows your location even if you turned off the location option. So, Facebook knows when I'm with someone that is not my (sentimental) partner? Aha, I say

What I learned in all these years of using Signal and Telegram is if you talk to other people about freedom, they probably won't understand. Tell them they were spied in their most intimate moments..well, expect some anger and (real) fear