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[–] [email protected] 151 points 2 months ago (63 children)

No.

As a kind of a weird bonus, activating end-to-end encryption in Telegram is oddly difficult for non-expert users to actually do.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (56 children)

As a kind of a weird bonus, activating end-to-end encryption in Telegram is oddly difficult for non-expert users to actually do.

No, it's not. It's very easy. In the bottom right corner there is a pencil button to compose a new message and right there it asks which tpye of chat to start. Secret chat is the second topmost option after group chat. Really not hidden or complicated at all.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago (25 children)

It should be a setting to always use encrypted chat, and it should probably prompt you when you first login.

Better yet, don't have an option to not have encrypted chats. I don't see a reason to not have everything E2EE all the time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

its some message for the users, having a secret chat kinda sounds bad, like doing something illegal and guilt trapping users into not using it

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