@laurel @sneeden @Lumeinshin >Telegram itself is not doing ads
Sponsored messages with some shitcoin grifts in basically every large channel. Don't know if it's still a thing, but I'm used to patching them out (sed -i 's|history\->peer\->isChannel()|false|' tdesktop-$pkgver-full/Telegram/SourceFiles/data/data_sponsored_messages.cpp).