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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

People like me can't change what big companies do. They just do it, and get their money from other companies and consumers who don't care.
I personally don't want to watch while free operating systems become increasingly unusable and insecure. Let's instead use the devices to our advantage as much as possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The world won't change itself. If people did nothing 40 years ago, there wouldn't be a Free Software movement.

It sounds like you are not using a fully free distro anyway. Most of the popular distros contain proprietary firmware, so what's the problem?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Also if you care about security, install goddamn firmware updates. The firmware on the devices is only going to get more insecure. If the company wanted to insert a backdoor, they have done it already. If an attacker wants to attack your device, an outdated device is simpler to compromise using publicly available info than to go the expensive route through the manufacturer. The first doesn't even need to be a nation state adversary.
If you want to protect yourself against rogue devices, IOMMU and microkernels are a better and more sensible solution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I didn't say that I'm never going to install any firmware updates. I just don't want to put it in my system if it's proprietary.