is as scam. if you’re already receiving unsolicited shit, what’s the thought process behind being courteous with them motherfuckers? go nuclear on them, that whole industry lost its benefit of doubt privileges a decade ago.

“my foot itches, what’s the best shotgun I can get to blast it off”. this is like problemXY.

a 2-year old ex-flagship is a beast of a device. how do I know? because I run a 7-year old not-flagship and it’s a beast. you tear google’s shit out and keep using it. you can even keep using GCam with a “yeah-playservices-is-present” faker and then disable GCam’s network access.

Google is an adversary. start treating it as such.

why do you think they insist on keeping it in cleartext? they had ample opportunities to implement E2EE in the past decade and finally bring telegram up to the level that’s standard for practically every messenger out there; please miss me with the private chat joke they have.

so, I just reopened the telegram client to check if I left something there, haven’t used in months and… damn. I forgot how phenomenally awesome the thing is, it almost hurts. all the memories, used it since it started for private and business shit. I maintain it’s the best UX on both mobile and desktop, bar none.

but all of that is fucking null and void when they won’t implement E2EE, and that’s not even the worst part. there’s a bunch of FOSS clients out there and adding on encryption would be trivial. nope, you try that shit, you’ll get kicked out. everybody’s free to draw their own conclusions, I’ve made mine and deleted chats and account.

“lover” lol

…or import everything to your local dovecot and do whatever you want with it