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I'm looking for a TOS-breaking telegram client that strips out all the premium shit (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 9 months ago by tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] taaz@biglemmowski.win 60 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Kostyeah@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 months ago

My main goal as a pirate is getting stuff for free, and I would reckon that the majority of pirates are the same.

[-] Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 3 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html

[-] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 27 points 9 months ago

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 :(

[-] Daklon@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago

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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[-] clot27@lemm.ee 19 points 9 months ago

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

[-] American_Jesus@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago

You don't get banned for using a fork.

Telegram API is open, you can use any client you want, even CURL

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 6 points 9 months ago

Unless they ban all the users using a specific client

[-] nueromancer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

There are incidents where users using particular fork gets banned

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[-] kWazt@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

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

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[-] southernwolf@pawb.social 8 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Cinner@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

There are several: Signal, Simple-X, Session, and Matrix

[-] Kazumara@feddit.de 7 points 9 months ago

Oh how does one use Signal as a Telegram Client?

[-] Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago

Install Signal
Delete Telegram
Enjoy Signal

[-] Kazumara@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago

Ah so you didn't actually answer OPs question, I misunderstood your intent.

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[-] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Briar is pretty good if other people have android

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[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Nekogram for android

Unigram for Windows. Don't know about Linux.

[-] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 5 points 9 months ago

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