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Louis Rossman's YouTube channel

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Only Telegram Premium subscribers can protect themselves from unwanted voice messages (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by WhoRoger@lemmy.world to c/fucksubscriptions@lemmy.world

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[–] soyagi@yiffit.net 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

No, anyone on Telegram can block incoming calls. Voice messages are different.

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[–] WhoRoger@lemmy.world [S] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Wait so how does that work then, I was looking at Telegram's page on it but frankly they're hyping premium so much, I got the impression you can't block shit without paying

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[–] soyagi@yiffit.net 6 points 3 years ago

As I said, anyone can block incoming calls. You can also block users which means they cannot send you anything (text, images, voice messages). If you specifically want to block only voice messages from a person, that feature is behind the Premium paywall.

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[–] UprisingVoltage@feddit.it 2 points 3 years ago

Without premium you can block calls but you can't block voice messages. Not sure what the user you replied to was on about

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[+] traveler01@lemdro.id -2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

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