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Pavel Durov, the CEO of Telegram, has repeatedly said the following on his Telegram channel about ads on Telegram:

- ads will be only on very large public channels and not on all public channels

- there won’t be any ads in chats

- the ads will be contextual, and not based on tracking or profiling users and their activity

- users will be able to opt out of ads

Other monetization options like donations and subscriptions are also in the works.

His channel is at https://t.me/durov

Personally, I wouldn’t mind paying a modest fee for this service.



Telegram can also sell "premium reaction packs" (steam hats), and/or go Discord mode and have people "boost" private groups etc with "premium features"... I would actually pay for better video calls (no one is giving us 1080p or greater)


Same. UI/UX-wise and super light and blazing fast native clients - I would gladly pay like ~$5/month.


My willingness to pay is more like $2.99/month, but it's still more than I'd pay for any other Messenger.


Also same. I'd also like the ability to pay maybe a bit more and be able to gift full access to friends/family.




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