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• Bots
• A versatile, cloud-powered messenger for every user
• Platform
• Turn on ground-level viewing
• Dual Web Chat for WhatsWA
• Tilt to view hills & mountains

However, deputy prime minister and minister of digital transformation Mykhailo Fedorov denied any data from the app being leaked. Throughout 2020, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps used groups and channels to dox Iraqi and Iranian citizens, while sharing propagandistic posts on the platform. After the 2021 coup d’état in Myanmar, Telegram channels were used by the junta to spread propaganda and organize misinformation campaigns against pro-democracy groups. Durov said the bond sale “will further solidify our position as an independent platform that is able to challenge the ‘Goliaths’ of our industry”.

• The company also confirmed that it does not share user information with partner companies, as has always been its policy.
• Ads from Telegram’s “Sponsored Messages” platform began to appear in channels with more than 1000 followers in October 2021.
• These Instant Answers are collected from either third party APIs or static data sources like text files.
• Its servers are distributed worldwide with several data centers, while the headquarters are in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
• In September 2013, the search engine hit 4 million searches per day and in June 2015, it hit 10 million searches per day.

Bots

Specific limited-edition gifts can be upgraded to a collectible version, unlocking a random appearance and other attributes. To activate an inline bot, a user must type the bot’s username and a query in the message field. Auto download settings can also be applied based on chat type such as group, channel or private. By default, logging into Telegram requires either an SMS message sent to the registered number or a code message sent to one of the active sessions on another device.

A versatile, cloud-powered messenger for every user

• Premium users get access to additional settings, like instant chat translation, and the ability to restrict who can send them text and voice messages.
• When a user chooses to hide their profile photo, they have an option of setting an alternative “Public Profile Picture” that will be shown instead.
• Headquartered in Paoli, Pennsylvania, DuckDuckGo is a privately held company with about 200 employees.
• DuckDuckGo also makes money through affiliate partnerships, premium subscription services, and enterprise solutions.

Telegram’s internal reporting system has an option to report content that contains child abuse, including specific messages in groups and channels. It also provides an email address dedicated to reports of content related to child abuse. The company agreed to pay an $18.5 million penalty and return $1.22 billion to Gram purchasers. In March 2021, Telegram launched a bonds offering to cover the debt and fund further growth of the app. In June 2024, Telegram launched Telegram Stars to facilitate in-app purchases of digital goods and services, in compliance with policies from the App Store and Play Store.

Platform

• In March 2021, Telegram launched a bonds offering to cover the debt and fund further growth of the app.
• Hundreds of pages of a group chat between Rosselló and members of his staff were leaked.
• The EFF said that the results “should not be read as endorsements of individual tools or guarantees of their security”, and that they were merely indications that the projects were “on the right track”.
• By default, logging into Telegram requires either an SMS message sent to the registered number or a code message sent to one of the active sessions on another device.

Headquartered in Paoli, Pennsylvania, DuckDuckGo is a privately held company with about 200 employees. Messages on the cloud are encrypted client-to-server, but privacy-conscious users might find this distinction important. The desktop app runs efficiently even on low-end hardware, consuming minimal system resources and offering stable performance. Navalny’s spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh link called the block and the deletion of the tactical voting app from app stores “censorship … imposed by private companies”. They also found that attackers had the theoretical ability to reorder messages coming from the client to the server though the attacker would not be able to see the content of the messages. In March 2014, Telegram promised that “all code will be released eventually”, including all the various client applications (Android, iOS, desktop, etc.) and the server-side code.

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• Users can freely join public chats and find them using the in-app search function, while private chats require an invitation.
• In October 2014, South Korean government surveillance plans drove many of its citizens to switch to Telegram from the Korean app KakaoTalk.
• In December 2024, DuckDuckGo criticized Google’s proposed remedies in an antitrust case related to search engine monopolies.
• In August 2025, the German public media broadcaster NDR closed its tagesschau Telegram channel, which published summaries of news stories from the German television news service by the same name.
• Telegram has been blocked temporarily or permanently by some governments including Iran, China, Brazil, and Pakistan.

Secret Chats support perfect forward secrecy and switch encryption keys after a key has been used 100 times or a week has passed. By March 2018, that number had doubled, with Telegram reaching 200 million monthly active users. The primary selling point of DuckDuckGo is that it offers its users true online privacy. That’s because it focuses purely on your search terms without linking them to a user profile. Note that this exception to DuckDuckGo’s strict no-tracking policy is relevant to the browser, not the search engine.

Dual Web Chat for WhatsWA

Telegram on the desktop is the version of the free popular cloud-based messaging app developed by Pavel Durov. Andriy Kovalenko, head of the security council’s centre on countering disinformation, clarified that the ban was limited to official devices and did not extend to personal phones. In April 2016, the accounts of several Russian opposition members were hijacked by intercepting the SMS messages used for login authorization. The desktop clients, excluding the macOS client, do not feature options for end-to-end encrypted messages. When the user assigns a local password in the desktop application, data is also locally encrypted.

Tilt to view hills & mountains

On 30 March 2020, an Elasticsearch database holding 42 million records containing user IDs and phone numbers of Iranian users was exposed online without a password. The accounts were extracted from not Telegram but an unofficial version of Telegram, in what appears to be a possibly government-sanctioned fork. Pavel Durov has argued that this is because it helps to avoid third-party unsecured backups, and to allow users to access messages and files from any device. The company only partially fulfilled a court request for personal data on two anti-Semitic Telegram groups, which authorities considered an intentional lack of cooperation. The Telegram CEO then said that the requested data was technologically impossible to obtain. Twelve days later, Telegram told its users that the Brazilian Congressional Bill No. 2630 against online disinformation, which was about to be approved, would end freedom of speech in the country.

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In January and February 2018, the company ran a private sale of futures contracts for Grams, raising around $1.7 billion. In channels, users can start a livestream, that is able to integrate with third-party apps such as OBS Studio and XSplit. Since 2017, Telegram users have been able to initiate one-on-one calls in private chats. Messages from private chats can be forwarded, with an option to hide the original sender’s identity or to hide captions from media messages. Forwarded messages also maintain reply formatting, able to show which messages in a thread are replying to others.

Telegram offers end-to-end encryption in voice and video calls, and optionally in private chats if both participants use a mobile device. Telegram for Desktop offers a powerful, privacy-conscious messaging platform that caters to both casual and advanced users. With seamless cross-device syncing, generous file-sharing limits, and customizable features, it excels in flexibility and efficiency. Ads from Telegram’s “Sponsored Messages” platform began to appear in channels with more than 1000 followers in October 2021. Groups are large multi-user chats that support up to 200,000 members and can be public or private. Users can freely join public chats and find them using the in-app search function, while private chats require an invitation.