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!

60 points

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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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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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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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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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Free Software

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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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trying to install the latest APK in the releases (which is 1y old), but when I try to log in it says “you’re using an outdated version, please update” refusing to let me log in :(

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Yes, you can only use it if you where using it in the past, sadly the project seems to be abandoned.

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No one gets to decide what i run on my device

(Except your device’s manufacturer)

No one gets to decide where i run my app

(Except your cloud/SaaSS provider or proprietary app developer)

No one gets to decide what must be deleted
(Except your cloud/SaaSS provider or proprietary app developer)

!I assume this was your point already, I am just agenda posting over here :3!<

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What “agenda” are you posting? You’re just nay-saying.

Go eat hay elsewhere with that attitude.

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I am pointing out that user-controlled computing and user freedom is in a bad shape. That’s not nay-saying, since there’s a way forward: open hardware and offline-first/p2p software.

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

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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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Unless they ban all the users using a specific client

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There are incidents where users using particular fork gets banned

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Um using for years, Telegram-FOSS, Nekogram, Forkgram, um both phone and desktop, never get any warning.

If anyone got banned, probably violation of TOS

Also the clients are opensource and available on GitHub

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Can you name those forks?

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

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

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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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What is a “feg”?

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

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

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