Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Well, as a 9-year user of Telegram, I expected some monetization and paid mode, but looks like we're going to be used otherwise, for more free cheese.


Telegram made $500M profit at ~1.3B revenue.

Revenue comes from ads and premium users and some minor sources.


I have a premium account as I really like the idea of just paying for the service I use.

I highly assume that the AI will be integrated in a way that you can mostly disable it or barely notice it if you aren't looking for it, like all the other paid or special features.

So many people never noticed stars, NFTS, a whole nft market, pay for messages, pay for groups, ... While using it ever day


I had my doubts before, but this was the proverbial drop in the bucket: I removed my account. People can still contact me via phone, sms, email, or Signal, or by just ringing at the door.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: