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Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote

You might excuse your issue with running Telegram for Windows, by the
OS you're running, but on the Android phone? Needless to say, you're
living in a reality that, if it ever existed, no longer does.

If I knew the answer, I wouldn't have asked the question.

I don't understand what you're trying to say but if you're simply saying
that it's impossible, then that's why I asked here - to find out if it's possible since I never claimed to know everything about Windows or Android.

Most of the time, maybe 95 out of 100 times, what most people think is impossible is not at all impossible - you just have to know how to do it.

Sometimes, rarely - but sometimes - people here know a lot more than I do.
I'm trying to find one of those people. That's why I asked the question.

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Wally J <walterjones@invalid.nospam> wrote:

Subject: Is there a way to watch a telegram channel on Windows or Android without logging into Telegram?

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Is there a way to watch a telegram channel on Windows
(or Android) without needing to create a Telegram account?

One specific channel I'm trying to watch is this one. >https://t.me/s/pilotblog

It's related to this youtube channel which gives daily updates. >https://www.youtube.com/@DenysDavydov

But he says his real-time videos cannot be uploaded to YouTube.
Just to Telegram.

You might excuse your issue with running Telegram for Windows, by the
OS you're running, but on the Android phone? Needless to say, you're
living in a reality that, if it ever existed, no longer does.

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Joel Crump

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Wally J <walterjones@invalid.nospam> wrote:

You might excuse your issue with running Telegram for Windows, by the
OS you're running, but on the Android phone? Needless to say, you're
living in a reality that, if it ever existed, no longer does.

If I knew the answer, I wouldn't have asked the question.

I don't understand what you're trying to say but if you're simply saying
that it's impossible, then that's why I asked here - to find out if it's >possible since I never claimed to know everything about Windows or Android.

Most of the time, maybe 95 out of 100 times, what most people think is >impossible is not at all impossible - you just have to know how to do it.

Sometimes, rarely - but sometimes - people here know a lot more than I do. >I'm trying to find one of those people. That's why I asked the question.

I hear you, but running Telegram isn't the end of the world, if you
were not, say, relying on greater than 20-year-old tech.

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Joel Crump

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Wally J wrote:

Is there a way to watch a telegram channel on Windows https://t.me/s/pilotblog

That URL lets me watch the videos in firefox, just scroll up to see
older ones in the feed and click play

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Wally J wrote:

it didn't
even occur to me that a "normal" Firefox could be used to watch videos.

I would expect other "out-of-the-box" browsers (chrome, edge) to work
too, nothing special about firefox.

It looks like I need to use a combination to see "Media Too Big" videos

yes the did say that a few were 'too big' for inline streaming to me too.

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Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote

Is there a way to watch a telegram channel on Windows
https://t.me/s/pilotblog

That URL lets me watch the videos in firefox, just scroll up to see
older ones in the feed and click play

I never (almost never) use Firefox because it's not hardened, so it didn't
even occur to me that a "normal" Firefox could be used to watch videos.

Normally I use the "hardened" Epic Privacy Browser to watch the YouTube
videos on Windows as I never see YouTube advertisements that way, and I was using the ClipGrab/yt-dlp/NewPipe methods to download the age-restricted (and/or country-code restricted) YouTube videos without a Google Account.

But it didn't occur to me that I could watch the Telegram videos without an account using a "weak" Firefox instead of a "hardened" web browser setup.

It looks like I need to use a combination to see "Media Too Big" videos https://t.me/pilotblog/5047

Using the combination techniques below, all the videos are now available!

YouTube without advertisements => Epic Privacy Browser with its adblockers YouTube restricted videos => ClipGrab/yt-dlp/NewPipe on Windows/Android Telegram channels & videos => Normal "weak" Firefox (non-hardened version) Media-Too-Big Telegram videos => ClipGrab/yt-dlp/NewPipe on Windows/Android

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Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote

Sometimes, rarely - but sometimes - people here know a lot more than I do. >>I'm trying to find one of those people. That's why I asked the question.

I hear you, but running Telegram isn't the end of the world, if you
were not, say, relying on greater than 20-year-old tech.

I hear you also (although I wasn't sure what lesson you were trying to
teach me due to my confusion)... but I think Andy Burns had the answer.

As you can tell, I don't have any logins to Google or Telegram or Facebook
or Reddit or any of the woke channels that most kids have logins for.

I was using the Epic Privacy Browser to watch the YouTube videos, and I was using the ClipGrab/yt-dlp/NewPipe methods to download the age-restricted (and/or country-code restricted) YouTube videos without a Google Account.

The reason I use the "hardened" Chromium-based Epic Privacy Browser is
simply that I never see YouTube ads when I use that specific web browser.

But it didn't occur to me that I could watch the Telegram videos without an account using Firefox instead of the "hardened" Epic Privacy Browser.

Apparently you don't need a Telegram account to watch videos on Telegram
that can't be uploaded to YouTube - you just need a "weak" web browser.

Since I've rarely interacted with Telegram, I didn't know that trick!

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On 01/07/2023 07:36, Andy Burns wrote:

Wally J wrote:

Is there a way to watch a telegram channel on Windows
https://t.me/s/pilotblog

That URL lets me watch the videos in firefox, just scroll up to see
older ones in the feed and click play

Works for me too in Pale Moon (32.2.1).

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Regards
wasbit

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wasbit <wasbit@nowhere.invalid> wrote

Is there a way to watch a telegram channel on Windows
https://t.me/s/pilotblog

That URL lets me watch the videos in firefox, just scroll up to see
older ones in the feed and click play

Works for me too in Pale Moon (32.2.1).

Thanks for testing those telegram videos with Pale Moon. https://t.me/s/pilotblog

The only thing that doesn't seem to work (yet) are the "Media too big"
videos. Here is one example from that channel https://t.me/pilotblog/5047

Can you get Pale Moon or ClipGrab/yt-dlp to display the telegram Media too
big videos without needing to create a telegram account on Windows/Android? https://t.me/pilotblog/5051

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Wally J wrote:

Can you get Pale Moon or ClipGrab/yt-dlp to display the telegram Media too big videos without needing to create a telegram account on Windows/Android?

I doubt it, the client can't get what the server is unwilling to give,
for the "too big"videos, there doesn't seem to be a URL of the video on
the CDN ...

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