Oh Great, Telegram’s Getting Ads – Gizmodo Australia

Telegram, the encrypted messaging app and longtime drug-dealer haven, is planning to monetise in 2021, founder Pavel Durov said on Wednesday.
The announcement comes as the app nears its eighth birthday and approaches 500 million active users, according to the statement that Durov put on his Telegram channel. Every new user that comes flooding in, he explained, brings more server costs for the company to deal with. A project of our size needs at least a few hundred million dollars per year to keep…

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