What are your thoughts on Signal's policy for edited messages?

PurpleDime: > Signal and WhatsApp have similar implementations where they indicate a message was deleted. Telegram doesn’t show the recipient anything, which can betray the integrity of an exchange if it was reviewed later. I agree, but there is a great counterargument: This way, Telegram eliminates one on-device evidence that there has been a specific correspondence between two parties (besides deleting a whole contact chat), which could be seen as a privacy/anonymisation benefit. Of course, one could always deny any compromisable topic, but a burst of deletion-evident messages (like in WhatsApp or Signal) tied to a specific time frame can suggest involvement in e.g. activistic events, or authoritarian regimes might even consider it obstruction of justice. Off-topic (click for more details)