Watchdog Updates [REDACTED]

We run the bot, Telegram Watchdog. We see the spam data every day. And we must to say, it harder and harder to actually prevent the spam. Over 50% of verification attempts on our service are bots. Meanwhile, Telegram is busy building a blockchain empire — and the spam keeps flowing. We wrote an honest breakdown of why the problem exists, why community tools alone can't fix it, and what Telegram’s privacy claims actually hold up to. It’s not a flattering picture. Read it here: https://en.astrian.lol/telegram-spam-privacy-and-the-human-rights-drama/ - 作为 Telegram Watchdog 的维护者，我们每天都会看到 TG「小广告」日益增长。而且，真正的反制正变得越来越难。 我们服务中超过 50% 的验证尝试都是机器人。与此同时，Telegram正忙于建立一个区块链帝国——而垃圾信息在平台上源源不断，无人监管。 我们分析了问题存在的原因，为什么社区工具无法单独解决问题，以及 Telegram 在其中的角色与作为。Telegram 的现状几乎可以用「泥沙俱下」形容。 https://astrian.lol/telegram-spam-privacy-and-the-human-rights-drama/

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We enabled our official community’s topic feature, so we are terminating the legacy information channel. Please join our community for the latest updates on Telegram Watchdog project: https://t.me/tgwatchdog_chat

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Illustrated by 步翎, the avatars of the bot, the repo and communities will be updated later this year (estimate and soon™️).

The problem fixed. The new join requests generated at this time period should invalied and candidates may need re-join the group for a new verification.

We have concerns that the official Telegram Watchdog instance may have technical issues. We are trying to investigate it and will have updates later.

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The problem was fixed. The reason is that the Telegram Bot platform server may have had message congestion in the last period, and we fixed this problem by restarting the bot server.

There is some technical issue that occurred Telegram Watchdog bot’s primary instance. We apologize for the inconvenience, and we are fixing this problem.

Telegram Watchdog has a new patch. In this update, we added haptic feedback in the verification progress and fixed a language-related problem related to Chinese Android users. https://tgwatchdog.astrian.moe/changelogs/2210.02.html

Maintenance completed. In this update, we swap CAPTCHA with PAT and use Turnstile verification services from Cloudflare. Also, we bring the Vue 3 to the web app and hope it can provide a faster and more reliable experience for you. Update detail: https://tgwatchdog.astrian.moe/changelogs/2210.01.html

Watchdog Updates [REDACTED] pinned «Telegram Watchdog will get into maintenance in the next 30 minutes (estimate period). The official instance of the Telegram Watchdog bot will not work due to maintenance. We apologise for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding and patience.»

Telegram Watchdog will get into maintenance in the next 30 minutes (estimate period). The official instance of the Telegram Watchdog bot will not work due to maintenance. We apologise for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding and patience.

https://github.com/Astrian/cfturnstile-vue3 https://www.npmjs.com/package/@astrianz/cfturnstile-vue3 用于 Vue 3 的 Cloudflare Turnstile 组件。

Telegram Watchdog will implement Turnstile in next update which uses Private Access Token.

Telegram Watchdog is now updated to version 2209.01. https://tgwatchdog.astrian.moe/changelogs/2209.01.html

We updated the Privacy Policy and Statement page. This document will help you know what data we collect and store, and explain why we “collect your IP address”. Check out here: https://tgwatchdog.astrian.moe/privacy.html

We updated the contribution guidelines including how to help to translate Telegram Watchdog to your language. Check it out: https://github.com/tg-watchdog/tg-watchdog/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md