Why in the fuckle does Telegram need access to my phone contacts, and more importantly, why did I have to go into my *PHONE'S* settings to tell Telegram to not scrape that data.

Also why the absolute fuck does Telegram automagically add people on your phone contacts to your Telegram contacts without giving you the option to disable that.

If hiding these options behind a paywall is one of the ways they're getting people to pay for Telegram Premium - god what a fucked up concept to my stuck-in-the-90s brain - then I'm probably gonna scream into a pillow.

If instead the developers literally never thought people would want to disable that feature, I'll still probably scream into a pillow because of how goddamn *neurotypical* and *extroverted* a design decision that is.

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@LexYeen Things like this are part of why we just don't use our phone for stuff like that. we can never know what things are doing with our things, that's at least slightly easier on a computer
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