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

submitted 7 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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[-] Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world 28 points 7 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 7 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 7 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.