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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[–] 60 points 2 years ago (27 children)

https://github.com/nikitasius/Telegraher

No one gets to decide what i run on my device
No one gets to decide where i run my app
No one gets to decide what must be deleted

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    It's super weird to me that pirates aren't advocating for the Free Software movement. Being able to control their own devices should be like one of their main goals.

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

    My main goal as a pirate is getting stuff for free, and I would reckon that the majority of pirates are the same.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    Free Software gives you the 4 essential freedoms. One of them is the freedom to distribute the program. So anyone could legally give you a copy for free. Sounds like what you want, no?

    Even if the authors implement some kind of DRM, any programmer can modify the program to remove that feature and share the modified version with everyone. Technically that is also possible with non-free software, but it's illegal, pretty difficult and requires special skills.

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  • [–] [S] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Thanks for the link! I'm trying to install the latest APK in the releases (which is 1y old), but when I try to log in it says "you're using an outdated version, please update" refusing to let me log in :(

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Telegraher, but be aware your account may get banned (I am a premium user tho)

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    You don't get banned for using a fork.

    Telegram API is open, you can use any client you want, even CURL

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    There's a bunch of apps on F-Droid you could try

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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I don't know if it's the "TOS-Breaking" you're looking for, but I've been using Forkgram for a while now and really appreciate the QOL improvements it has, as well as the ability to hide the Premium stuff you aren't using.

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  • [–] [B] 6 points 2 years ago

    Unigram is what you're looking for on Desktop, not 100% sure if they have a Linux build.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    There are several: Signal, Simple-X, Session, and Matrix

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Oh how does one use Signal as a Telegram Client?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Nekogram for android

    Unigram for Windows. Don't know about Linux.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Nekogram is just an unofficial telegram client, but (at least last time I downloaded it, a few month ago) it had the exact same limitations of the official client

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    64Gram Also has an AUR build

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    does revanced work on telegram? blocking ads is usually the first patch that's put out

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