Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon
by vxNsr on Monday March 15, 2021 @05:19PM
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Only quibble I have with Telegram is their “find nearby” feature, it’s clearly abused by bad actors to funnel users to porn, so my family sees the whole app as not family friendly, bec they don’t want their tweens and teens with phones, that are mostly locked down, having this loophole. There no way to turn it off, or lock it behind parental control, so until then we’re still stuck on WhatsApp.
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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon
by Sunspark on Monday March 15, 2021 @06:08PM
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Good thing your family has no access to the internet, otherwise they might be exposed porn in google image search.
Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon
by vxNsr on Monday March 15, 2021 @11:10PM
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That’s a very reductive take... especially considering I stated that their internet access is pretty limited.
Just because most Americans or even most people in the world think the vileness of R-rated stuff is inevitable and harmless doesn’t make them right. It absolutely warps your view of humanity and imho many ppl today suffer from PTSD and don’t even realize it, just thinking their altered brain chemistry is a normal part of life. The trauma that a constant diet of porn and violence does to your brain is significant and damaging, whether consumed in a pub in 1700s Germany or a random website today.
Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon
by postmodernbrute on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @08:19PM
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Just deny location access to the app.