Telegram updated its advertising platform and started collecting user IP addresses for ad targeting.
With IP advertisers, you can show ads in specific countries and cities. Telegram maintains that no other geolocation data is used for these purposes.
This, in particular, allows the advertiser to avoid displaying ads in a limited country or territories (for example, if an advertiser creates an ad for Russian-speaking users, but would not like it to be displayed in Russia).
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In addition, advertisers can now send an anonymized list of encrypted phone number-based identifiers (no personal numbers) to Telegram to display UK-only ads. For example, a store can give Telegram its encrypted database of phone numbers in order to show a special offer only to their children.
All these changes apply only to Telegram users without a Premium subscription. If you subscribe, the messenger will not collect data and show ads. [Telegram Info]
Source: Iphones RU
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