the forkgram and mercurygram programs contain advertising in channels, bots, and search. this is not mentioned on the respective pages when downloading the software. for the sake of user transparecy, i think the anti-feature tag should be applied.
example screenshot below:
Can you show us in the source code where the developer inject ads?
If the ads are part of the channel (or network), there’s nothing to warn about… don’t join those channels.
the ads are injected by the telegram developers and are present in the telegram source and consequently in the sources of forkgram and mercurygram. for example, there’s a class for advertising in bots: TelegramAndroid/TMessagesProj/src/main/java/org/telegram/ui/bots/BotAdView.java at dev · forkgram/TelegramAndroid · GitHub
the developers of forkgram expressed that they are not removing the advertising to stay compliant with telegram’s terms in this issue.
the ads are added on behalf of the channel/bot owners through the telegram’s advertising network to users who do not have a subscription, not directly by the channels as a regular message.
I see, open a MR then to add this anti-feature
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