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Re:SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering by notsrg on Friday October 11, 2019 @05:57PM (#21228859)
At least on Android, Telegram is available via Fdroid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.telegram.messenger/
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Re:SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering by dbrgn on Friday October 11, 2019 @06:53PM (#21229191)
Yep, but that's the "open source" Android app, where the irregular code dumps are often weeks or months behind the released Play Store version...
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Re:SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering by lucb1e on Friday October 11, 2019 @07:35PM (#21229372)
And it uses openstreetmap tiles instead of sharing location data with google, and a few more such modifications.
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Re:SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering by bdcravens on Friday October 11, 2019 @06:46PM (#21229149)
What percentage of Android users, or to be generous, Telegram users, are running Fdroid?
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Re:SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering by imsesaok on Saturday October 12, 2019 @03:41AM (#21231310)
it's not a huge investment, and does not cost any money; market share really doesn't matter here when you can get in easily. you also can download the app on their website without installing their store app.

also keep in mind that telegram definitely can distribute their app on their website, like they do with desktop apps.

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Re:SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering by emilfihlman on Friday October 11, 2019 @06:59PM (#21229226)
If you block Telegram from the Play store, suddenly most of them.
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