Adding Telegram-desktop patch to remove ads?

[gc-user]

I found this patch to remove "sponsored messages", which I assume are the ads that started showing up recently.

https://github.com/Layerex/telegram-desktop-patches/blob/master/0001-Disable-sponsored-messages.patch

Would that be a patch voidlinux could adopt?

[Johnnynator]

https://core.telegram.org/api/terms#3-advertising-amp-monetization

3. Advertising & Monetization
   ...
   3.3. If your app allows accessing content from Telegram channels, you must include support for official sponsored messages in Telegram channels and may not interfere with this functionality.

We can't redistribute Telegram with this removed while using their API.

[gc-user]

Makes sense. Thanks for the info.