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Re: Telegram Ad Platform

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Post by jobigoud »

maverwa wrote: post #122
johnchristopher wrote: post #120

> Turn off ad blocker > You appear to be using an ad blocker that may prevent pages on the Telegram Ad Platform from working as expected. > Please turn off your ad blocker or add promote.telegram.org as an exception to manage your promoted messages. > Close Oh, well ^^ I was a Telegram user for year until I completely switched to Signal 2.5 years ago. I'd pay 1-10€ a year for a Telegram experience with e2e and withou…

My guess is, because instant messaging only works with multiple people. The usfullness of an IM service is directly coupled to the amount of your peers using it. If there is no one to talk two, why bother? Sure, you and I may be happy to pay this, and may even fork out the fee for our loved ones, but how many other people would do that?

Whatsapp almost reached one billion monthly users before they changed from paid (1$/year) to free.

Re: Telegram Ad Platform

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Post by ivan_gammel »

swarnie wrote: post #71
ivan_gammel wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Active user here. There are some great channels related to my hobbies, it has proper desktop version etc.

Comparable to something like Reddit would you say?

I’m not using Reddit, so cannot compare the experience, but Telegram is a messenger app, not a forum.

Re: Telegram Ad Platform

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Post by cunidev »

_def wrote: post #127

When Facebook acquired WhatsApp I hoped that Telegram will do better, but it's been so many years now and they still don't open source everything and use their homemade cryptography. I find that really unfortunate because the app itself is really great, but not more trustworthy than WhatsApp.

I would argue it being even less trustworthy, with the vast majority of messages being stored in clear in closed-source servers.

Re: Telegram Ad Platform

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Post by cunidev »

tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: post #59
captn3m0 wrote: post #7

The minimum spends look ridiculous. >To ensure and maintain high quality of ad content, a minimum advance payment of €2,000,000 is required to launch ads on the Telegram Ad Platform. >Of this payment, Telegram holds €1,000,000 as a deposit, and makes the remaining sum available to the advertiser to spend on displaying ads. >If the contract is terminated and the advertiser spent less than €10,000,000 on ads within the…

This will hopefully keep out bad actors (spammers, fraudsters). If they can afford doing this, good on them. Telegram is home to many cryptocurrency communities, the first thing I thought of when I saw this was that it's going to be heaven for phishers/fraudsters targeting those.

As a reminder, Crypto.com alone just spent $100M on an advertising campaign involving Matt Damon, urging people to buy currencies and comparing crypto buyers to colonizers of America, or the great generals of history, or something like that.

So the crypto space definitely has money to invest on advertising, if anything to remain up to their promises a bit longer.

Re: Telegram Ad Platform

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Post by bigger_inside »

dotancohen wrote: post #104
0x38B wrote: post #11

Some answers and clarification on ads from Pavel Durov [1](Google Translate): “Many users have suggested introducing the ability to disable official advertisements on Telegram channels. Today we are announcing two more changes: 1. Users will be able to disable official advertisements. We have already started work on this new feature and look forward to launching it this month. It can be issued in the form of an inexp…

> Users will be able to disable official advertisements. > in the form of an inexpensive subscription, If it really is inexpensive, that means in the realm of a dollar a month, I'll gladly pay.

I've honestly been wanting to give Telegram money.

Re: Telegram Ad Platform

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Post by bigger_inside »

_def wrote: post #127

When Facebook acquired WhatsApp I hoped that Telegram will do better, but it's been so many years now and they still don't open source everything and use their homemade cryptography. I find that really unfortunate because the app itself is really great, but not more trustworthy than WhatsApp.

You're using the cryptography alone as a means to gauge trustworthiness there, which is fair, but I'd expand the categories for trustworthiness and rearrange their ranking, please: It's a non-transnational corporation actor. That alone means I trust it magnitudes more than Whatsapp, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, discord, and all the others that I -know- are all captured by the way industry integration works.

Re: Telegram Ad Platform

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Post by amelius »

kylehotchkiss wrote: post #4

I hope this works for telegram! They were going to need to launch ads at some point and this transparent plan to get started seems like it considered the user base. It’s become my favorite messaging app and I enjoy the pace of innovation. I get it’s not end to end encrypted but that’s not what I am asking for with telegram - just a decent messaging app that makes it easy to remain anonymous (not sharing phone number)…

> not end to end encrypted but that’s not what I am asking for with telegram

Why not? Why allow any third party to collect data on you and store it for an unlimited time?

Re: Telegram Ad Platform

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Post by lpcvoid »

0x38B wrote: post #11

Some answers and clarification on ads from Pavel Durov [1](Google Translate): “Many users have suggested introducing the ability to disable official advertisements on Telegram channels. Today we are announcing two more changes: 1. Users will be able to disable official advertisements. We have already started work on this new feature and look forward to launching it this month. It can be issued in the form of an inexp…

Wow, finally a company which takes money in return for services. Why is this such a seemingly outlandish thing for modern tech companies?

Re: Telegram Ad Platform

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Post by saura »

As some other users said, this is something it had to be made to basically make some money out of an amazing tool, and I also think that you can keep your ads healthy if you moderate them. It´s fine. (:
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