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I'm looking for a TOS-breaking telegram client that strips out all the premium shit (lemmy.kde.social)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Hello fellow pirates! I'm tired of having all the telegram premium ads and antifeatures in the client and I'm looking for a client that removed them even if it's against the TOS. Any tips? I'd rather use an actual open source fork than a cracked version of the original

I'm looking for both Android and Desktop (Linux)

What I want is to remove the hateful ads in the channels and the "buy premium to unlock these emojis", and also to be able to arrange the folders in whatever order I like, without being forced to keep the "All messages" as first

thanks in advance!

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[+] [S] -9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

apps on fdroid are all TOS-compliant, otherwise they would be removed real quick by telegram (AFAIK)

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Idk which third party apps are compliant which aren't? There is this one feg: https://f-droid.org/packages/it.belloworld.mercurygram/ Unlocks the premium app icons for free. https://f-droid.org/packages/nekox.messenger/ This one surely has a few premium features no? Unlimited accounts feg?

    Personally I just use Telegramm-FOSS since years. Not sure what the actual differences to official client are at the moment, but this one is just fine and I'm never annoyed by premium feature ads like it seems to be the case for you.

    I highly doubt that F-Droid team removes third party telegramm apps when they are against tos of telegramm. They are actually out there defending our freedom, even and especially when proprietary services do not want us to use Foss third party apps. Google does not want you to use third party apps for their services. F-Droid still out there publishing foss YouTube clients. Give them some credit instead of just assuming they suck up to big companies.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Why would telegram have any bearing on what's hosted on fdroid?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Because fdroid has a policy of respecting developers wishes. It's also why you won't find any forks of signal on there.

    Of course anyone can make their own fdroid repos and they have no control of that, but they have to be manually added

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