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Yup. I have the exact same. I can’t believe this actor isn’t evil.

What’s the Trinity Killer doing?

*you’re

Okay well, I did. It was on the iOS Telegram client, US phone number. Maybe Pavel pushed it only to certain clients.

Yes

What I found most alarming about this whole thing: this post showed up in the Telegram app for me, in a banner. I don’t follow Durov’s channel. He decided to push it to every Telegram client regardless of whether they’re following him.

And he posted it to his Telegram channel, too: https://t.me/durov/452

Yeah the message is only half right.

No, only some of their clients are.

Assuming every connection you make is encrypted with TLS (HTTPS) or otherwise encrypted:

If you use encrypted custom DNS, your ISP sees only the IP addresses you connect to. If you use unencrypted DNS or ISP-provided DNS, they see the hostnames plus the IP addresses.

Why? They (used to) push disgustingly deceptive marketing and had an embarrassing server breach.

What do you mean by “portfolio”?