Telegram (-) 

Despite not giving it contacts access, Telegram has clearly found some way to interact with phone contacts from other services — presumably scraping metadata from iOS itself.

Because of this, Telegram is now uninstalled from my phone until I can figure out what they changed. Be wary that you may experience the same issue.

Telegram (-) 

@Goldkin thank you for posting something

a person i no longer talk to, who i met on tumblr SEVEN YEARS AGO

popped up two days ago as "So and So is now on telegram!"

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@Goldkin ok so i looked up my contacts because i thought, "ok maybe i kept his phone number?"

nope

NOT in my current contact list

I changed this list two-ish years ago, and have gotten TWO different phone numbers since then

jsyk telegram added a contact that i literally do not have, and told me they came to telegram

this is worse than i thought, and i was flippant about this a few days ago, and was like well i guess i didnt delete their number- except i did

i did

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@lugh Oof. That’s pretty rough. Thank you for sharing.

Dunno what’s going on either, and I’m fumbling for innocuous explanations (old data? Ad network data? FB/GV integration somehow?). I’d assume there is one, but I _really_ want to know what source they’re pulling from.

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