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As Telegram ads are getting more misleading and dangerous than ever (specially crypto ads) just wanted to know is there a way to block them? I'm mostly worried for my more elderly family members getting affected

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Use the open source client on fdroid

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

I haven't used telegram, but in general this is the correct solution.

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

They don't block Ads ( speaking from experience )

Telegram Ads aren't that terrible if you ask me, they're not behavioral, and easy to ignore..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I see no ads using the open source client.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I don't think there is a Foss client on fdroid at least that blocks ads

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I use the Telegram FOSS client from F-Droid. I don't remember seeing any ads in it. There are a lot of them (and 99% are malicious) in the official client though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It does still get updated about once a month, last one was on April 2: https://nekogram.app/changelog

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

And?

This hard on for updates is exasperating. Does it still work?