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Telegram clients are open source. Whats preventing people from patching out ads out of their clients ?
by IceWreck 5y ago
Telegram clients are open source. Whats preventing people from patching out ads out of their clients ?
- dpq 5y ago1. Too much of hassle for most people out there. 2. (hypothetical) desire to keep Telegram afloat? I would rather pay a recurring fee though than get ads, but if the choice would be "Telegram with ads" vs "No Telegram at all" (if they run out of money), I would prefer the former option.
- ckastner 5y agoNothing, probably, but the vast majority of the 500m MAU all but certainly use the official client, rather than a homebrewed one.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoTo receive push notifications for iOS/Android apps, you need to upload your developer keys (!!!) to Telegram push server. So they can ban clients that disable advertising.
- IceWreck 5y agoThe open source fdroid builds don't do that, instead they receive notifications another way, without google's push service.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoCan you please elaborate, what 'another way'? I know only one: keeping the app running as a service, with all associated drawbacks. The app we develop (an XMPP client) does just that. On iOS, it is not possible at all. To make an app receive messages and notify user about them, you must use APNS, and to do that you have to upload your keys to Telegram.
- IceWreck 5y agoYes, the app runs in the background. It kills the battery, but you have to compromise on that if you do not want to have google services on your phone.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoTelegram users who want to avoid ads and people who want to keep their phones google free are two very different audiences, which shouldn't be conflated.
- vadfa 5y agoTelegram blocks attempts like these by saying that doing that kind of stuff is against TOS. Then they can use that excuse to have apps taken down from the play store/app store.