Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com tubbadu @lemmy.kde.social 12 mo. ago

I'm looking for a TOS-breaking telegram client that strips out all the premium shit

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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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
- 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.
  
  My main goal as a pirate is getting stuff for free, and I would reckon that the majority of pirates are the same.
  
  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.
- 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trying to install the latest APK in the releases (which is 1y old), but when I try to log in it says "you're using an outdated version, please update" refusing to let me log in :(
  
  Yes, you can only use it if you where using it in the past, sadly the project seems to be abandoned.
- 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!<
  
  What "agenda" are you posting? You're just nay-saying.
  
  Go eat hay elsewhere with that attitude.
Telegraher, but be aware your account may get banned (I am a premium user tho)
- You don't get banned for using a fork.
  
  Telegram API is open, you can use any client you want, even CURL
  
  Unless they ban all the users using a specific client
  
  There are incidents where users using particular fork gets banned
There's a bunch of apps on F-Droid you could try
- apps on fdroid are all TOS-compliant, otherwise they would be removed real quick by telegram (AFAIK)
  
  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.
  
  Why would telegram have any bearing on what's hosted on fdroid?
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.
Unigram is what you're looking for on Desktop, not 100% sure if they have a Linux build.
There are several: Signal, Simple-X, Session, and Matrix
- Oh how does one use Signal as a Telegram Client?
  
  Install Signal
  
  Delete Telegram
  
  Enjoy Signal
  
  One simply does not use Telegram - founder is sketchy and it now primarily has alt-right, conspiracy and terrorist uses.
  
  I know some use it for trackers and to bootlick crackers, but it’s still not the best.
- Briar is pretty good if other people have android
  
  Yes, briar is a very good telegram client too
Nekogram for android

Unigram for Windows. Don't know about Linux.
- 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
  
  They weren't asking for the premium Telegram features. They were asking for a Telegram client without the premium ads.
Try AyuGram
- This is AWESOME! Exactly what I was looking for, thanks!!
64Gram Also has an AUR build
does revanced work on telegram? blocking ads is usually the first patch that's put out
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- OP has preempted your comment by specifying "TOS-breaking" tho
Good forbid you pay them $5 whole dollars for their service. Those greedy bastards have gone too far at $5 dollars!
- Bruh, look at the magazine before commenting.
  
  If you aren't going to offer anything constructive in your comment, why don't you buy the guy the premium upgrade yourself?
  
  Oh no, the bad man told me to pay for the privacy service I use instead of freeloading and stealing from them.
  
  It's one thing to steal shit because it's unavailable. I think it's another to steal from a company offering reasonable privacy services competing against Whatsapp. And then you'll all bitch when it's only Facebook left. Signal is certainly circling the drain.
- Lol, they wont be paying from their pocket forever for the service we use
  
  Wat?

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