What are your thoughts on Signal's policy for edited messages?
Privacy Guides Community [Unofficial]
April 25, 2026
PurpleDime:
> Deleting specific messages instead of a whole chat, without any notification that there was any change, can also paint a lie in Telegram. I am not convinced that they had privacy in mind with how they implemented this feature.
Yeah, I’m sure it was just a simpler implementation to delete a message without a placeholder, the little privacy benefit just came with it.
And yes, you can absolutely abuse this to fabricate a lie or story, but one can’t deny its benefit, albeit a very small and for most people irrelevant one. It’s a double-edged sword.
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