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It's been a few days since the official unlock Telegram in Russia. Official links are available, but not all providers.

Many ask what will happen to the redirects, do they continue to work and can continue to use them. Yes, redirects will continue to work, at least these are not going to close:

teleg.at
teleg.win
telega.rip
telega.love

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Telegram unlocked because it is impossible to block

In the Ministry of communications said that the decision to unblock Telegram received due to failing block and the active cooperation in the fight against drugs and terrorism.

"the Decision was taken by Roskomnadzor, and the Prosecutor's office against the court decision that is currently in connection with technical impossibility of blocking the Telegram and due to the fact that the representatives of the Telegram began to actively cooperate against terrorism and drug abuse in their environment, it was possible to cancel the decision about the lock from a purely technical point of view," — said Alexey Volin.

The Ministry clarified that the use of messenger in Russia never banned. Was only made a decision about his technical blocking.

interfax.ru/russia/714232

#lock

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Forwarded from Beta Info English (Antonio Marreti 🚩)
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A Beta version of Telegram for iOS number 6.3 received the long-awaited video calling.

To enable them you need to go in the debug menu settings (10 taps on a gear) at the bottom to turn the switch on "Experimental Feature".

In profile menu you will see the button "Video call".

For video calls the interlocutor must be installed a Beta version of messenger and turned on video calls.

#iOS

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Telegram Desktop updated to stable version 2.1.13

What's new:
— bug Fixes downloads images.
— Fixed movement of window "picture in picture" on Wayland on Linux.
— Minor bug fixes and improvements.

Download: with official website or GitHub.

#update #desktop #stable

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the ECHR communicated the first complaint related to a Telegram lock

The website, owned by LLC "Living picture" in 2018 blocked because of the IP address that used messenger.

Victims of a blocking Telegram are thousands of online services, but all instances of Russian courts was passed only by the company, and last spring "Living picture" fell the complaint to the ECHR.

The European court of human rights communicated the complaint of LLC "Living picture" that owns a website to promote designer photoposter blocked 19 April — 3 days after it started locking a Telegram messenger. About it reports Damir Gainutdinov legal analyst of the Agora, whose lawyers represent the interests of the applicant in the ECHR.

#lock #courts

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Summer Notepad

Regular cleaning from the deleted accounts occurs in a Telegram starting from June 22. With some channels in the last days is removed to 7,000 subscribers daily.

Read more about the mechanics of cleaning the deleted accounts with channels wrote at the end of 2018.

Past cleanings can read in post in February 2020.

#cheaters #cleaning

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Bot to check merged data

Recently it became known that open access has a database with the merged data Telegram accounts.

Told how could this happen, what did bot, so you can see whether your number in base @infoleakbot

tginfo.me/tg-leak-en

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Did you turn off the ability for people to find your Telegram profile via your phone number in the privacy settings?
Anonymous Poll
67%
Yes
26%
No
8%
I don't know how
Pavel Durov said that the Telegram has already paid investors more than $ 1.2 billion.

Today it is known that the SEC and the Telegram was dogovorilis about the settlement.

Now Paul Pavel Durov on my channel stated that a Telegram has already paid investors more than $ 1.2 billion, either directly or in the form of loans.

He also expressed hope that in the future the environment for blockchain technology in the U.S. will be more favorable.

t.me/durov/118

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Statistics groups

In the code Telegram for macOS were seen line, responsible for statistics in groups. According to them we can assume that we will see the following:
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— The number of participants, posts and views in chat.
Source of participants came to the chat and their language.
— Top users invited other people to the chat.
Tops on the number and length of messages by hours and by days of the week.
Tops administrators on the number of kicks and bans in the chat.

Told more and took comment from the Creator of the popular service for Analytics chats Combot Fedor Skuratov.

tginfo.me/group-stats-en

#statistics

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Multiaccounts for Telegram Desktop

In Beta Telegram Desktop number 2.1.14 will support multiple accounts.

The user can use 3 accounts and switch between them like in the mobile clients.

#desktop #beta

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the Federal government would welcome the opening of an office Telegram in Russia

"the more technology companies will be present, the more they will create jobs, of course, we", – said the head of the Ministry Maksut Shadaev, answering the question about the attitude of the Ministry of communications to the possible opening of the Russian office of the messenger.

Chadaev added that he does not know whether the messenger founder Pavel Durov to open an office in Russia.

https://tass.ru/ekonomika/8859743

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What to do if you are threatened to pour bots on the channel?

Recently often began to arise such a question. Articles with examples of markups can be found on popular sites, and the admins now fear the Bay of your channel or chat bots, supposing that the Telegram could block their channel in this case.

Today one of the developers of Telegram he said the channels for cheat not banyat.

Do not succumb to provocations Blackmailers and don't be afraid markups from them. Some practical advice for such a case gave Code Durov. And do not rush in case of markups to translate your channel into private mode, often the cheaters are hunting for your username, which you can catch in a fraction of seconds.

#cheaters

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Telegram will reject the data requests from the Hong Kong courts against the background of the terrorism act

The representative of the Telegram soobshil news website HKFP that the messenger is to reject the data requests from Hong Kong authorities until international consensus in relation to recent political changes.

This is due to the fact that Hong Kong gave up some instant messengers and social networking after the adoption last month of a controversial national security law.

"We understand the importance of protecting the right to privacy of our users in Hong Kong under such circumstances," – said Michael Ravdonikas (Markus Ra), head support, and the representative of the Telegram.

"Accordingly, the Telegram is not going to handle any requests for data belonging to its users in Hong Kong, until you reach an international consensus against the ongoing political changes in the city." Michael Ravdonikas added that Telegram never released any data to the authorities of Hong Kong.

On our question whether the satisfied data requests from the courts of other countries Michael didn't answer, and a channel with information about the requests of the authorities @the Transparency is still blank.

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A month ago we wrote about a new service @FleepBot. Since then, he has received several major updates and has grown significantly.

Recall that Fleep is a constructor for the admin bots in which you can create a powerful bot for delayed post bots and intelligent feedback.

What remarkable innovations introduced Fleep for the last 30 days:
— multiposting: the ability to publish and edit up to 10 posts at a time
triggers: automated responses to bots feedback
— improved statistics: added flow rate, calculating the average price of the subscriber and the dynamics of development of the project.
— instant creation of publications.

project Statistics to date:
• 5100 owners switched over to Fleep
• 25 million user audience in the connected channels
• 52 improving the service for two months

As the creators have prepared two instructions for working with bots:
the manual bot for pending post
instructions for bot feedback

@FleepBot.

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What happened to Telegram

15:00 some users complain about the unavailability of the messenger, but not everybody understands what happened.

Messenger was working normally, but the users of Beta versions of clients to deal with the problem of connection.

The problem of the eternal connection associated with changes on the server, which we will write later. Users of stable versions of Telegram faced with the problem.

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Change limits

uploading in Telegram files has been increased. Now user can upload any media weighing up to 2 GB. Previously, the limit was equal to 1.5 GB.

The ability to upload files up to 2 GB will appear in a stable version of Telegram 6.3.

An example file with the new limit: t.me/absdqwerty/347

#limit

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Animated avatars in channels

In Beta-version Telegram for Android support animated avatars got groups and channels.

How it will look like you can see in our post.

Users Beta-version Telegram for Android and iOS can already see the animated avatar of our channel.

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The official website of the competitions were the work of participants of the second round of the competition for the creation of the ranking algorithm content.

While judges are preparing to publish the results of the competition, you can see the submitted works on website of the competition.

To view, you need to select the participant and click the button "OPEN WEBSITE".

#contest

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Telegram learned to protect excellent against theft

The admins of the popular Telegram channels and groups are often faced with the interception of their usernames. In chat or channel cheat bots, the owner trying to fend off that translated the chat channel or in private, but not in time to reserve address, lost it because the checker has intercepted it faster.

We wrote, and was advised not to transfer the channel in private in such an attack.

Now, to steal an excellent this way does not work, the development team found a solution.

tginfo.me/safe-username-en

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Pavel Durov vs monopoly
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Telegram Vice President, Ilya perekopsky, made in Innopolis at the panel meeting, IT is Digital change. His statement copies of today's her post.

In the post Pavel Durov wrote on the need for legislation to oblige Apple to allow users to install apps not only via email but also via third-party marketplace, spoke about the centralization of the market with two strong players Apple and Google.

Read more in the article: tginfo.me/durov-vs-monopoly-en

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