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some of my questions are already answered by this stackoverflow question, but could someone please help me with two real "real basic" things? I utilize a telegram bot to receive messages from my smarthome-system. My bot is already up and running and I can receive messages that have been sent via the HTTP(s) API.

  • Why do I only receive messages on the mobile phone I've created the bot with (don't get me wrong - that's exactly the way I want it to be)?
  • How can I ensure that no one else may read the messages that have been sent to the bot (e.g. if someone got the bot's name)?

Many thanks in advance and BR, Christian

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Unlike channels whose messages can be viewed by anyone, bots send messages to each user individually. When you start a Telegram bot, the back-end program behind it, receives your unique identifier. From then on, the bot sends your messages only to you. No one else receives them, because their unique identifiers are different.

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