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J-Kuhn on May 26, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Freenode ops take control of 700 channels

Whatsapp blocked telegram.me links at some point (I think when it was acquired by facebook, inciting an other mass exodus)

scrollaway on May 26, 2021 [–]

How? WhatsApp messages are e2ee. Via the preview pings maybe?

e3bc54b2 on May 26, 2021 | [–]

If I remember, telegram.me links would not be identified as URLs requiring manual copy-paste. They didn't have link previews back then.

The messages are E2EE only in transit. They can always tweak clients for things like this.

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