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Regardless of whether these are the true reasons, Telegram being forced to ban a bot means Telegram can no longer be relied upon as a messenger. They have two

Regardless of whether these are the true reasons, Telegram being forced to ban a bot means Telegram can no longer be relied upon as a messenger. They have two options: 1. Find a way around relying on Apple and Google's blessings 2. Make it technically impossible for themselves to ban someone like this again

noxer 5y ago
They ban bots all the time. Bots are consider public and have to comply with telegrams ToS and to an extent with Apple/Googles ToS. Problems here mostly are related to illegal data, copyright infringement and adult content. If they could not remove such stuff Telegram would have long been shut down or at least kicked from all app stores. The same rules apply to any other app on the stores. No technical solution (encryption or whatever) would make this go away.
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- foxfluff 5y ago
  > The same rules apply to any other app on the stores. So you can't sell a web browser that can access illegal copyright infringing adult content? I think they should remove all browsers then.
  - noxer 5y ago
    The browser does not host or provide content. Messengers like Telegram however do. Public telegram content can be found direct with telegrams in-app search. Also everyone knows that browsers are excluded form most of these store rules because reasons. Browsers dont have to pay a fee for ads shown either for obvious reasons. BTW you can use web.telegram.org to circumvent apple blocked content on telegram because this runs in a browser they dont have to comply with app store rules (for now). And you can use F-Droids Telegram Fork or the APK form telegram.org to circumvent googles blocked content. In case of a bot that is turned off however this does not help because its turned off at the backed.
    - lostmsu 5y ago
      > Messengers like Telegram however do. That's not completely true. The bots are basically like web servers.
prirai 5y ago
They do provide the apks on their website which dondon't have the app stores' rules upon them. You might try that.
- iaml 5y ago
  The bot was banned in that one too.

noxer 5y ago

They ban bots all the time. Bots are consider public and have to comply with telegrams ToS and to an extent with Apple/Googles ToS. Problems here mostly are related to illegal data, copyright infringement and adult content. If they could not remove such stuff Telegram would have long been shut down or at least kicked from all app stores. The same rules apply to any other app on the stores. No technical solution (encryption or whatever) would make this go away.

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foxfluff 5y ago
> The same rules apply to any other app on the stores. So you can't sell a web browser that can access illegal copyright infringing adult content? I think they should remove all browsers then.
- noxer 5y ago
  The browser does not host or provide content. Messengers like Telegram however do. Public telegram content can be found direct with telegrams in-app search. Also everyone knows that browsers are excluded form most of these store rules because reasons. Browsers dont have to pay a fee for ads shown either for obvious reasons. BTW you can use web.telegram.org to circumvent apple blocked content on telegram because this runs in a browser they dont have to comply with app store rules (for now). And you can use F-Droids Telegram Fork or the APK form telegram.org to circumvent googles blocked content. In case of a bot that is turned off however this does not help because its turned off at the backed.
  - lostmsu 5y ago
    > Messengers like Telegram however do. That's not completely true. The bots are basically like web servers.

prirai 5y ago

They do provide the apks on their website which dondon't have the app stores' rules upon them. You might try that.

iaml 5y ago
The bot was banned in that one too.