Bugs and Suggestions

Use case: a communist-controlled country has someone with a telegram account containing many (if not all) contacts in the country (cuz they own telecom companies). They can know who you are, what do you post in channels and groups. If you don't agree with the government you are then facing jail because you want to say your opinion in a supposedly privacy-focused social media app.
For millions of people this is the only hope to have freedom of speach in social media.

Deleted Account Mar 8, 2022

This feature is essential for users in Russia and other repressive countries. Now more than ever, people need a place where they can safely express their opinions and communicate. Please implement this feature in the next update 🙏

Deleted Account Apr 3, 2022

Yes

Ilyá Apr 15, 2022

wondering why telegram team remains silent in this thread? seems like a big issue to neglect, or is it by design?

Moritz Apr 15, 2022

Ilyá

Maybe it's by design, the number of contacts is the most important one for a messenger.
The only reason why WA is so popular is the high number of contacts there.

Rear-Tiger 🐅 Apr 15, 2022

Moritz

Then why can you hide your number just after registration at telegram and revealing it for a couple of seconds (which might be enough to endanger the new user)?
This FR is just about having this option already *before* registration and not afterwards.

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Deleted Account

Belarusian law enforcement agencies (like Russian ones) has parsed all the phone numbers, and as soon as a person is registered, they already know that a number is assigned to him and can easily de-anonymize him if necessary. For example, for comments that they don't like. They do this in Belarus. Read the channel - https://t.me/zheltyeslivy/33431 Implement this suggested feature as soon as possible, stop being stupid, or do you need situations of mass de-anonymize, like in Hong Kong, after which you made the function of hiding the phone number for non-contacts?

👆 There you go! I know this is technically possible therefore odds are it's true (or will be soon). You can believe that ALL governments have an agency doing this. Proof that Telegram is totally compromised BY DESIGN!

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The fact that Telegram doesn't seem to care about this demonstrates that THEY ARE COMPLICIT and DELIBERATELY FACILITATING this form of government tracking. Telegram was fake all along. I'm going to make sure that more people and news agencies know no about this.

Deleted Account May 1, 2022

It's ridiculous that any telegram user who happens to have me in their contacts list gets notified that I've joined. I don't even KNOW who has me in their contacts list. How can there be any trust of privacy in telegram when such a basic, fundamental element of privacy is missing? There isn't even a mention of this during the install process, so there is no way of knowing until after the fact. TERRIBLE behavior for any app, regardless of privacy claims. This needs to be addressed, although I suppose it's too late for me.

And to add - this isn't even a basic case of "mutual contacts". Telegram doesn't have access to my contacts, so there's no way that it would know which contacts are mutual.

Deleted Account May 4, 2022

I want to set up and upload ID

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