![]() The best way to prevent these third parties from collecting and selling your data is by using a VPN. Note: App developers, internet service providers, and other companies can track your each click, share and even download on the internet. If you’re tired of this app for similar reasons, read along to learn how to delete Telegram permanently. Notably, in 2018, Apple temporarily removed it from the App Store after discovering inappropriate content.Ĭonsequently, all these issues and intermittent availability have compelled users to abandon Telegram and switch to other secure messaging alternatives. Many cybercriminals also frequently use this app to run fraudulent activities sneakily.Ĭurrently, the messaging app is banned in several countries and highly monitored in others. Terrorists have used it to spread dangerous propaganda, coordinate attacks, plan protests, and decide about other nasty activities. This homegrown solution has high-level encryption but has played a part in Telegram’s devious reputation. Moreover, privacy experts also wonder how the firm manages such colossal storage of data and the respective resources while being a non-profit company.īesides, some security concerns exist, with encryption experts casting doubts on the proprietary MTProto cryptography protocol. Also, it raises questions about why the app doesn’t offer end-to-end encryption as the default setting despite using it as a key marketing feature. However, this begs why it doesn’t give you a choice to decide whether Telegram should store your data. In this case, the app saves your conversations on its standard servers, an act that it advocates for facilitating easy chat backups. By default, Telegram communications remain unencrypted unless you enable the “Secret Chat” feature. Others who still trusted Telegram had to stop using it for other personal reasons.įor privacy-savvy users, the way Telegram implements encryption raised red flags. However, privacy concerns emerged shortly after its launch in 2013, compelling many Telegram users to delete their accounts. home/ri5h46h/.local/share/icons/telegram.Telegram is a popular instant messaging app with millions of users globally. home/ri5h46h/.local/share/TelegramDesktop (This is a Directory) Next delete the main executable file which may be in your Downloads folderĭelete the whole folder which you extracted from the downloaded file.Īfter doing above steps, telegram is removed 98% from your PC because still some files stay in /home//.local folderįollowing are those files, you can remove them if you want to you can also remove it using the rm command To remove the desktop entry/shortcut delete the following file (I'm using GNOME desktop in this case): /home/ri5h46h/.local/share/applications/sktopĭeleting it will remove the desktop icon. So in order to remove it completely do the steps I am writing below : ![]() You can't remove it with your apt package manager because it has nothing to do with that because it is a application/x-executable type binary file. So it seems like you have downloaded the official executable file from the official website of Telegram. If you installed the snap package telegram-sergiusens then do sudo snap remove telegram-sergiusens This will uninstall any packages from the ppa as well as removing it. You don't need it in this case, since there is no repository version of Telegram, however, it is the preferred way to remove ppas: sudo apt install ppa-purge Sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:atareao/telegramĪs mentioned by there is a package called ppa-purge which removes ppas more gracefully, attempting to restore any packages from ppa to repository versions as well as removing the ppa versions. If you installed from the Atareao PPA then remove the PPA itself: sudo apt remove telegram If you can't find them do sudo updatedb & locate Telegram to see where they are. ![]() You can remove Telegram by deleting all these files and directories. There may also be a hidden directory in your home ~/.TelegramDesktop. If you have been using Telegram you may also find an automatically created directory in ~/Downloads called Telegram Desktop which contains files you have downloaded from Telegram messages. You may find them in ~/Downloads but perhaps you put them somewhere else, for example /opt. If you downloaded Telegram directly from the website, then your package management system has no idea about it, and you have to remove the files yourself.
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