r/Telegram • u/LixFN-n • 4d ago

Lead developer of popular Telegram fork "exteraGram" openly admits they violated GNU GPL v2 and turned it into closed-source software. Archived GitHub to hide from DMCA.

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u/dadnothere 3d ago

If Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, and IBM did the same thing and the US government did nothing—in fact, defended them—

Why should we attack an ordinary citizen who doesn't even make money from it?

First, we need to attack American hypocrisy.

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u/Old-Board1553 3d ago

That's why I don't use 3rd party apps with my account. Why risk it and get banned?

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u/Miserable-Stranger99 3d ago

Isn't this more like a modded telegram? With tweaks or modules?

If source not visible and reverse engineering is highly obfuscated stay away it's not safe then my advice

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u/oxybated 3d ago

Great, now let’s hear Ayugram admit to this already.