>One of the biggest privacy problems in messaging is the availability of loads of meta-data — essentially data about who uses the service, who they talk to, and when they do that talking.
>I am not specifically calling out Telegram for this, since the same problem exists with virtually every other social media network and private messenger.
In fact, https://simplex.chat/ is the only messenger with the least amount of metadata.
This snake oil is spreading like [Herpes] Simplex .
Again, the company lies about queues (a programming technique) being a privacy feature.
The application can not get rid of the metadata of server knowing which IPs are conversing, unless the clients explicitly connect to the service via Tor. The server must always know from which connection to which connection it routes packets. It's not a network hub, it's a switch, after all.
https://cwtch.im/ and https://briarproject.org/ route everything through Tor always, and they don't have server in the middle, which means there is no centralized authority to collect metadata. It's light years ahead of what Simplex pretends to offer.
>I am not specifically calling out Telegram for this, since the same problem exists with virtually every other social media network and private messenger.
In fact, https://simplex.chat/ is the only messenger with the least amount of metadata.