The company says its version will have “fewer restrictions” and “automatic updates.”
Messaging platform Telegram is now offering a version of its app that can be directly downloaded from its website. This way, you skip the Google Play Store and download Telegram as an APK on your Android phone.
What’s the advantage? Well, Telegram says that its version of the app has “fewer restrictions” than the one offered on the Google Play store. The direct download also receives “automatic updates” as per the company.
Telegram hasn’t specified what it means by fewer restrictions. However, some Reddit users believe that Google blocks access to certain channels on Telegram that it thinks you shouldn’t access. A user even posted some screenshots of channels that have been blocked on Telegram.
On Monday (25), the former US ambassador to Morocco, Marc Ginsberg, sued the A - owner of Google - in the California court, requiring removal of the application Telegram Play Store for facilitating the dissemination of speeches of violence, extremists and anti-Semites.
According to Ginsberg, Telegram has been used as a stage for threats, encouragement and coordination of racist violence, especially after the death of George floyd and the inauguration of the new President of the United States, Joe Biden.
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The action requires the Sundar Pichai company to adopt the same criteria used to ban the application Speak of his store, accused of being one of the platforms used to organize the attack on the Capitol, in the USA, at the beginning of the month.