One of the most celebrated features of Telegram is that you can avoid giving your phone number and use your username to add people. The platform - approaching 500 million users - has a lot of unique features that make it a popular choice for a WhatsApp alternative.

Telegram has been one of the biggest WhatsApp rivals - even before the latter’s privacy policy change. For this post, I want to compare Telegram and Signal’s privacy features and policy with WhatsApp to see how much of your data these apps are using and how secure they are. Currently, Telegram and Signal have come out as front runners of this WhatsApp replacement race.īoth apps have their pros and cons, and there are plenty of posts on how they fare feature-wise.

The new policy gives the app more freedom to integrate with Facebook and let users chat with businesses easily this also means the app will collect a lot of your data.īecause of this change, there has been a lot of outrage and folks are looking to leave the Facebook-owned chat app and head to other alternatives.

WhatsApp made one of its most controversial changes to its privacy policy last week.

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