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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by sangnoir on Monday March 15, 2021 @10:55PM (#26472394)
> There is nothing, technically, that he can do to prevent third party clients.

There are plenty of technical ways of detecting and blocking 3rd party clients (using both in-channel and side-channel, uh, signals); the only challenge is that it becomes a never-ending arms-race

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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by zie on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @10:43AM (#26477328)
and the clients are open source[0], so unless the close source it, the arms race is mostly in commit speed. :)

0: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commits/master

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