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Not a telegram user so I'm interested in how are the ads displayed? Like banner ads?

• ushakov 5y ago
  Like chat messages https://promote.telegram.org https://promote.telegram.org
  • pizza234 5y ago
    > Sponsored messages on Telegram are displayed in large public one-to-many channels with 1000+ subscribers and are limited to 160 characters. Sponsored Messages are based solely on the topic of the public channels in which they are shown. It's a stretch to define Telegram as "ruined by ads"; this policy seems a reasonable compromise to monetize the product. The "famous competitor"'s way of monetizing is considerably more harmful, IMO.
    • JohnWhigham 5y ago
      Lol, have people learned nothing watching software in the past decade? It always starts with the innocuous "oh don't worry, this is very limited and only a select group of people will be exposed to it!" line
      • FemmeAndroid 5y ago
        Personally, I feel like I’ve seen just as much, if not more software I value ruined by it failing to afford to keep the lights on.
        • throwaway2048 5y ago
          you might even say most software is ruined by NOT having ads, I wish everything had even more ads, I say!
      • pizza234 5y ago
        If one actually watches, instead of making rhetorical arguments, they'll observe that there are different types of products, and one can't make a generalized statement. Windows for example, is expanding their ad-base, even if they have a base revenue due to the product being sold, so it's reasonable to present a slippery slope argument. Ubuntu is not (directly) sold, yet, they've removed the ads (Amazon sponsored searches). Android products have different dynamics - differently from O/S, the cost of switch is considerably lower; users do complain/act when advertisement becomes too invasive, so there is a balancing force. This balancing force applies also to messaging apps, so the slippery slope argument is not realistic. See the significant number of users who switched to Telegram when WhatsApp was sold to Facebook, or when they changed the privacy rules. I don't know how many users expect to freeload messaging apps (that is, to expect that apps don't monetize metadata or ads or not to directly sell the product). I have heard people complainints about Whatsapp's privacy invasion rather than Telegram's advertising (as a matter of fact, I guess that none of the people I know has ever seen a Telegram ad). In this specific case, paradoxically ads are less dangerous, because the cost to the user is overt, as opposed to metadata (ab)use, which is covert.
• Daunk 5y ago
  You won't see them in private messages. It's only in some big public channels that people can promote their posts as "ads".
  • afiori 5y ago
    can channels opt-out of having ads?