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by KennyBlanken 665 days ago
> Telegram was also banned in Russia for a few years.

And how exactly do you think it got unbanned?

Their "encryption" used to use an in-house algorithm (in house algorithms almost always are vastly inferior to standard ones) and even today encryption stores the keys on their servers (in Russia...) and E2EE has to be enabled per-conversation by hand.