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Telegram has added an option to hide the list of chat participants (for chats involving more than 100 users). Previously, this feature was only available to community administrators. It was enabled in the chat settings. It is believed that this will prevent the identification of users of messengers, as well as owners of Telegram channels.
Well, let's figure it out...
1 . Hiding the list of users, obviously, will not lead to the masking of all user accounts participating in the chat. Accordingly, the copy of the chat will continue to work. You can do it in the Telegram desktop application (chat export) or in a bunch of other services:
2️⃣ Will continue to be effective and the analysis of users' connections in the chat with each other. A number of products have already appeared that allow automating the analysis of such dаta:
3. Automated unloading of all chat participants, of course, will now be difficult. You will have to use archived lists of community members that are collected by a number of services:
