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by jchw 2346 days ago
Telegram also supports proper E2E in the form of secret chats, though the UX is definitely not as good (for example, last I checked it did not support group chat or multi device.)
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EDIT: Was under the impression Telegram served closed source clients. Turns out it does not. I stand corrected.

OLD COMMENT:

E2e using a client that is not opensource (on a system that is not trusted) is not helping much.

E2e where the server is not open source should be okay, because the server-end can only snoop on some meta data (how much, when, what IP, chunk sizes, etc.) but not the content.

The Telegram clients are open source.
oops. i'll fix it. tnx for pointing out.