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Plus Messenger is forcing users to be subscribed to their telegram group with a way to hide coming "soon." App it's dead and I'm looking for alternative. (self.telegram)
submitted 1 year ago by DoucheBagMcSwag to c/[email protected]
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Title. Everyone who called them out for this (including myself) were banned or muted a week. Likely they're going to be selling ad space which is why they're being aggressive about this. You can't even archive it which means this was on purpose. Forcing something down user's throat and saying "you'll eventually be allowed to hide it" is what I expect from Meta, EA or Microsoft.

What 3rd party app do you use? Plus Messenger is enshitified and I'm looking to get rid of it ASAP

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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Edit: they got backlash and let users hide it, but the PR damage has been done and I want out

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@DoucheBagMcSwag Nekogram and exteraGram are the 2 solutions I use, good features on both of them.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ExtraGram? That's a new one thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@DoucheBagMcSwag extera, not Extra, but yeah. Slow releases tho!

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag 3 points 1 year ago

Really appreciate the suggestion. I'm using this one now and happily uninstalled Plus Messenger

Thanks for taking the time out of your day to help me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am using the default client after all the client hopping again.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait the default telegram? Doesn't it have ads now?8 plus the suggested animated emoji suggestions for premium upsell

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those are easy to ignore, ads are rare and I have premium so doesn't bother me

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag 2 points 1 year ago

Ah...that makes sense then!

thanks for taking the time to reach out