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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Telegram without ads? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So, Telegram has launched horrible ads that look a lot like spam to me. At least in my channels it's typically some crypto bullshit. So, I wonder if people know about alternatives to the subscription service for blocking them? Sadly, Forkgram won't offer that option and it doesn't seem to be allowed. However, I wonder if there are still forks out there which block the ads? Or do people know of alternative options?

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

The problem with Signal is that the UX isn't up to par aesthetically and the problem with SimpleX is that the UX is overly complicated. People want a great chat app first and foremost, privacy is an afterthought.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What about Signal's UI isn't up to par aesthetically?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Same question. I checked out Signal not a long time ago and it was really good looking. The only thing regular users may not like is the encryption key verification thing but it's not really a UI issue.

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Set the navigation bar size to compact and this looks much better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Stories are primary content. In Telegram, Snapchat and all modern messengers, they've at the top of the message list. Even in Instagram that's the case, in Signal, they're pointlessly hidden because some old men who advocate for phones without front facing cameras spoke loud enough.

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

Many people use TG specifically because it has unlimited cloud storage. Signal doesn't offer this (don't know about SimpleX).

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

For the average person, the ability to run it on seamlessly on multiple devices is more important than storage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Going from WhatsApp to Signal there's literally no problem with Signal UI.